Marilyn Monroe

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

I've never dropped anyone I believed in.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.

Everybody says I can't act. They said the same thing about Elizabeth Taylor. And they were wrong. She was great in A Place in the Sun. I'll never get the right part, anything I really want. My looks are against me. They're too specific.

I love a natural look in pictures. I like people with a feeling one way or another - it shows an inner life. I like to see that there’s something going on inside them.

It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again. But I believe you’re always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. Fame will go by, and, so long, I’ve had you fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.

Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart.

Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.

Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?

Acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.

Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity...

I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.

I want to say to the people, if I am a star, the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did.

If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.