Marilyn Monroe

“Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.”

“What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?”

“Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.”

“What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?”

“I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.”

“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.”

“An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?”

“I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.”

“I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.”

“If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.”

“There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.”

“I think I have always had a little humor.”

“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.”

“Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.”

“Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?”

“If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.”

“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.”

“A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.”

“Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.”

“I love a natural look in pictures.”

“Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.”

“A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.”

“Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.”

“Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.”