Marilyn Monroe Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.”

“The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.”

“I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.”

“I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.”

“I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.”

“Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.”

“It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.”

“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.'”

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”

“Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'”