Marilyn Monroe Quotes

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

I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me—and that I've made of myself—as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it.

The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body—you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.

A sex symbol becomes a thing.... I just hate to be a thing.

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

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

People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature—and it won't hurt your feelings—like it's happening to your clothing.

Why? It paid the rent.

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

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