I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
I don’t want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.
Girls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?
How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.
I think I made his back feel better.
Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.
What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.
Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I’ve experienced them both.
I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.
I want the world to see my body.
Only the public can make a star. It’s the studios who try to make a system out of it.
The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.
What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?