Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.
Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
Dogs never bite me - just humans.
I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so.
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!'
I like to feel blonde all over.
At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.
My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.
What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.
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.'
Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.
I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I'll leave those things to the men.
Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.
