Marilyn Monroe

“A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.”

“It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.”

“In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.”

“A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.”

“A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.”

“I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obliga...”

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

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

“A smart girl leaves before she is left.”

“There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.”

“No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.”

“For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.”

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.”

“I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.”

“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.”

“The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.”

“I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.”

“I love a natural look in pictures.”

“A career is born in public - talent in privacy.”

“Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”