A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
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.
Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.
Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
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 experience, but that's not where I live.
First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
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.
I restore myself when I'm alone.
I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public, talent in privacy.
I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
I've been on a calendar, but never on Time.
I've never dropped anyone I believed in.
If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.
It's all make believe, isn't it?
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
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.
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.
To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.
What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
When Marilyn was a child, she had a pet dog named Tippy. In her final movie, "Something's Got To Give," the dog in the movie was also named Tippy.
Marilyn was not credited in three movies she appeared in: 1947's "The Shocking Miss Pilgrim," 1948's "Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!," and 1950's "Right Cross."
Marilyn's favorite store was Bloomingdale's.
According to an FBI report, Marilyn was “tricked” into suicide, being told that she should try to commit suicide but would be saved in time. After she threatened to link reports of an affair with Robert Kennedy, she was left to die in a plot that included her housekeeper Eunice Murray, her psychiatrist Ralph Greenson, her press secretary Pat Newcomb, and actor Peter Lawford.
Marilyn is the inspiration for the "Monroe piercing," which is a piercing located between the top lip and the nose. It is meant to resemble a beauty mark, much like the one Marilyn had.
Marilyn was in a total of 29 films. "Something's Got to Give" would have been her 30th.
Marilyn had a one night stand with the King of rock 'n' roll Elvis Presley while she was still married to Arthur Miller, according to a source that recently revealed that he witnessed the event.
Marilyn wore a dress size of 14.
Marilyn's first modeling job only paid five dollars.
Marilyn still remains one of the highest paid deceased celebrities.
Darryl Zanuck, the president of 20th Century Fox during Marilyn's time, said that nobody discovered Marilyn; she earned her own way to stardom.
It was rumored that Marilyn was going to remarry Joe DiMaggio on August 8th, 1962, three days after she died.
Marilyn's favorite perfume was Chanel No. 5 and her favorite store was Bloomingdale's. She also adored the restaurant Romanoff's in Hollywood.
In February 1954, Marilyn stopped in Korea to entertain troops, taking a side-trip from her honeymoon in Japan. Her presence nearly caused a riot, and Joe DiMaggio, her new husband, was uncomfortable with her being there.
Marilyn is pictured on a 32? U.S. commemorative postage stamp which was issued on June 1st, 1995. According to the United States Postal Service, this stamp is the 6th most popular commemorative stamp of all time.
Marilyn won three Golden Globes: "Female World Film Favorite" in 1954, "Best Actress in a Comedy" for “Some Like It Hot” in 1960, and “Female World Film Favorite" in 1961.
Marilyn's studio claims her measurements were 37-23-36, while her dressmaker claims they were 35-22-35.
Marilyn of course has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which is located at 6774 Hollywood Boulevard. She received her star in 1960, the same year the Walk of Fame was opened.
The song "Candle in the Wind," by Elton John, was recorded as a tribute to Marilyn.
Marilyn was named the "Number One Sex Star of the 20th Century" by Playboy magazine in 1999.
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