Quotes about inspiring
inspiring play piano
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. Marilyn Monroe
inspiring cities people
I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.
inspiring party character
Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.
inspiring giving-up 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.'
inspiring real glamour
Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.
inspiring eye night
Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.
inspiring girl blue-dress
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.
inspiring kids night
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.
inspiring creative tears
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.
inspiring hurt worry
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.'
inspiring long goes-on
Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.
inspiring blonde feels
I like to feel blonde all over.
inspiring girl boys
Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'
inspiring mirrors looks
I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.
inspiring people intellectual
I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.
inspiring thinking eating
I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so.
inspiring people findings
Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.
inspiring respect women
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
inspiring gay i-can
I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!
inspiring emotional conflict
I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.
inspiring trying firsts
First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
inspiring talent irritating
I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
inspiring creativity gay
Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.
inspiring fire males
Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.
inspiring men two
Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
inspiring dumb blonde
Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
inspiring children want
Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.
inspiring real feels
I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.
inspiring people scare
The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.
inspiring men majority
The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.
inspiring fickle fame
Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.
inspiring brother mirrors
I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.
inspiring stars trying
Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.