This life is what you make it. No matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth.
Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.
If a man isn’t a certain age, he just isn’t interesting.
Love is something you cant invent, no matter how much you want to.
Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.
Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings.
For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.
Anything’s possible, almost.
People respect you because they feel you’ve survived hard times and endured, and although you’ve become famous, you haven’t become phony.
Sisters make the best friends in the world.
I’m pretty, but I’m not beautiful.
Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.
I’m going to be a great movie star some day.
It was my fans who made me a star.
I learned to walk when I was ten months old and I’ve been walking this way ever since.
I’m trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that’s not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.
All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‘Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.’
Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‘One tear, right now,’ that one tear would pop out.
If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.
The working men, I’ll go by and they’ll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, ‘Oh, it’s a girl. She’s got blond hair and she’s not out of shape,’ and then they say, ‘Gosh, it’s Marilyn Monroe!’