Sometimes I open ’em up and I let the granules dissolve on my tongue like communion. But mostly I mix it with stuff. ibid.
He [Kennedy] never sticks his hand up her dress like he does to me. ibid.
I decided to leave home and join the ‘circus’. My Week With Marilyn 2011 starring Michelle Williams & Kenneth Branagh & Eddie Redmayne & Emma Watson & Dougray Scott & Dominic Cooper & Julia Ormond & Judi Dench & Derek Jacobi & Zoe Wanamaker et al, director Simon Curtis
I’ll do anything to be in the film business. ibid.
The first job is do whatever the fuck I tell you. ibid. director
Marilyn needs a bodyguard – sort something out. ibid.
I want to be the best actress I can be. ibid. Marilyn
Excuse my horrible face. ibid.
Eight months of this – I’d rather kill myself. ibid. Olivier
She’s devouring me. ibid. Arthur Miller
Remember, boy. When it comes to women, you’re never too old for humiliation. ibid. Olivier
First love is such sweet despair, Colin. ibid. Woman
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. Marilyn Monroe
What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5 of course. Marilyn Monroe
I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking. Marilyn Monroe
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. Marilyn Monroe
It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far. Marilyn Monroe
I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. Marilyn Monroe
I restore myself when I’m alone. Marilyn Monroe
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife ... I guess I am a fantasy. Marilyn Monroe
Fame is fickle and I know it has its compensations. But it also has its drawbacks and I’ve experienced them both. Marilyn Monroe
With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up. Marilyn Monroe
Fame doesn’t fulfil you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary. Marilyn Monroe
Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live. Marilyn Monroe
Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection. Marilyn Monroe
It’s not true I had nothing on. I had the radio on. Marilyn Monroe
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. Marilyn Monroe
Please don’t make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one ... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity. Marilyn Monroe
Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle. Marilyn Monroe
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. Marilyn Monroe
That’s the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I’m going to be a symbol of something, I’d rather it be sex than some of the things we’ve got symbols of ... I just hate to be a thing. Marilyn Monroe
I’m not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful. Marilyn Monroe
First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress. Marilyn Monroe, Ms Magazine 1972
Dogs never bit me. Just humans. Marilyn Monroe
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up. Marilyn Monroe
Hollywood’s a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents. Marilyn Monroe
When you’re famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does. People you run into feel that, well, who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe? They feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature – and it won’t hurt your feelings – like it’s happening to your clothes not you. Marilyn Monroe
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you. Marilyn Monroe
The truth is I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. Marilyn Monroe
People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one. Marilyn Monroe
I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human. Marilyn Monroe
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. Marilyn Monroe
We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle. Marilyn Monroe
I think Marilyn is bound to make an almost overwhelming impression on the people who meet her for the first time. It is not that she is pretty, although she is of course almost incredibly pretty, but she radiates, at the same time, unbounded vitality and a kind of unbelievable innocence ... I shall never forget the almost overpowering feeling of unconquerable strength and sweetness which she conveyed. Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)