Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.
If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.
I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.
Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don’t feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
I never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.
I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.
It’s nice to be included in people’s fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.
There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
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 read poetry to save time.
Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.
When you’re a failure in Hollywood, that’s like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.
Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.
Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.
I hear you’re looking for a sexy blonde to play with the Marx Brothers. Would you like to see me. I’m blonde and I’m sexy.
I’m thirty-six years old. I’m just getting started!