Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroewas an American actress and model. Famous for playing "dumb blonde" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s, emblematic of the era's attitudes towards sexuality. Although she was a top-billed actress for only a decade, her films grossed $200 million by the time of her unexpected death in 1962. She continues to be considered a major popular culture icon...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth1 June 1926
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.
I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.
I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.
I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.
When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.
Everyone’s childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand. By this I don’t know if I’m just giving up with this conclusion or resigning myself — or maybe for the first time connecting with reality. How do we know the pain or another’s earlier years, let alone all that he drags with him since along the way at best a lot of leeway is needed for the other — yet how much is unhealthy for one to bear. I think to love bravely is the best and accept -— as much as one can bear.
You must feel attractive to be attractive.
I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me.
Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.
I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me- and that I've made of myself- as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it.