Marilyn Monroe

Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn’t open one way, try another – perhaps even give it up for another bottle?

Marilyn Monroe

Don’t let your fear of failing triumph over the joy of participating.

Marilyn Monroe

Don’t you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn’t marry a girl just because she’s pretty, but my goodness, doesn’t it help?

Marilyn Monroe

Enjoy the fact that you’re a woman and men will enjoy it too.

Marilyn Monroe

Ever notice how ‘What the hell’ is always the right answer?

Marilyn Monroe

Everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don’ think they realize it, but it’s like ‘grrr do this, grr do that’ But you do want to stay intact-intact and on two feet.

Marilyn Monroe

Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.

Marilyn Monroe

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Marilyn Monroe

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I’ve experienced them both.

Marilyn Monroe

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

Marilyn Monroe