Marilyn Monroe

It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through &amp past the falls.

I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.

Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody - I don't know who or what - maybe myself. I have feelings some days where there are scenes with a lot of responsibility, and I'll wish, 'Gee, if only I had been a cleaning woman.'

Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.

Wise girls kiss but never love,_x000D_ Listen but never believe,_x000D_ And leave befor they are left.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex.... Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges.

Happiness is the most important thing in the world, without it, you live a life of depression.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!'

Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope.

The happiest time of my life is now.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.

Just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.

I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.