Being Yourself By Marilyn Monroe Quotes & Sayings

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! — Marilyn Monroe

I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't. — Marilyn Monroe

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it. — Marilyn Monroe

Being normal is boring! — Marilyn Monroe

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. — Marilyn Monroe

Me being an ant, at her mountain, I would have tried my best for my voice to reach her peak. But our timing was off, and she hid her pain as stars in clouds. If I had the chance, I would have saved her from all the truths and lies. — Anthony Liccione

I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I've just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don't know what put that bug in me at a young age. — Holly Madison

Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable. — Rebecca De Mornay

Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous — Marilyn Monroe

Even being close to L.A., I was always inspired by old movies and Marilyn Monroe and the glamour of Hollywood. — Gwen Stefani

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

But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium. — Marilyn Monroe

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

I was never happy as a child, so it wasn't something I took for granted.i did'nt grow up as an average, american child. An average child grows up with an expectation of being happy. — Marilyn Monroe

You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way. — Marilyn Monroe

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short. — Clive James

A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of gay men feel that way because of their particular predicament in society and not being accepted completely. — Madonna Ciccone

Do people ever get over being shy? I think it's with you for life-like the color of your eyes. — Marilyn Monroe

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world. — Marilyn Monroe

Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden — Marilyn Monroe

I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked. — Rosanna Arquette

I think every human being knows how to hate. Because if they didn't know how to hate how to hate they wouldn't know how to love. — Marilyn Monroe

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. — Marilyn Monroe

Feel what I feel within myself - that is trying to become aware of it also what I feel in others not being ashamed of my feeling, thoughts - or ideas realize the thing that they are - — Marilyn Monroe

(Of Marilyn Monroe) She was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short — Clive James

I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape. — Marilyn Monroe

I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity. — Marilyn Monroe

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one. — Marilyn Monroe

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing. — Marilyn Monroe

Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one. — Marilyn Monroe