10 Marilyn Monroe Quotes on Monroe

Marilyn Monroe quotes on monroe

1. It's not true I had nothing on. I had the radio on.

3. I've been on a calendar, but never on time.

8. An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

10. I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

22. If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.

36. I knew I belonged to the public and to the world. Not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

44. I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me.

57. My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!

68. Those people have been writing all those lies about me, all I know, it's their problem. Those people, I don't even know them or if we met it's been brief. Can I take it? Most of course! I'm used to it and remember the old saying: 'consider the source'.

76. I remember her on the screen, huge as a colossus doll, mincing and whispering and simply hoping her way into total vulnerability.