Great Throughts Treasury

"There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos."

"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."

"They will only care when you're gone."

"This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping the child to them, they start punishing the child. Like you don't dare get a cold. How dare you get a cold! I mean, the executives can get colds and stay home forever and phone it in, but how dare you, the actor, get a cold or a virus. You know, no one feels worse than the one who's sick. I sometimes wish, gee, I wish they had to act a comedy with a temperature and a virus infection."

"This is a free and democratic country and no one has a monopoly on anything."

"This is supposed to be an art form, not just a manufacturing establishment. The sensitivity that helps me to act, you see, also makes me react. An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument."

"To all the girls that think you?re fat because you?re not a size zero, you?re the beautiful one, its society who?s ugly."

"To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation."

"Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone... they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' they hurt the ones closest to their hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart."

"Try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is."

"Trying to build myself up with the fact that i have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence."

"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."

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. I believe everything happens for a reason"

"We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift."

"We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle."

"We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves."

"What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course"

"What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?"

"What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman? A woman who can have a family ... I'd settle for just one baby. My own baby."

"What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe."

"What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?"

"When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep."

"When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world."

"When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own."

"When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them."

"When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress."

"When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you?re gonna look up and say i lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don?t just start arguments with them and don?t tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends. Don?t forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life."

"When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women."

"When you have only a single dream it is more than likely to come true -- because you keep working toward it without getting mixed up."

"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 is she 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, you know, of any kind of nature and it won?t hurt your feelings. Like it?s happening to your clothing. One time here I am looking for a home to buy and I stopped at this place. A man came out and was very pleasant and cheerful, and said, ?Oh, just a moment, I want my wife to meet you.? Well, she came out and said, Will you please get off the premises? You?re always running into people?s unconscious."

"When you?re young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you?re laughing again."

"When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does."

"Who said nights were for sleep?"

"Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?"

"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."

"With success all around me, I can still feel her frightened eyes looking out of mine. She keeps saying, "I never lived, I was never loved," and often I get confused and think it's I who am saying it."

"Wives have a tendency to go off like burglar alarms when they see their husbands talking to me."

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."

"Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand."

"You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself."

"You know, most people really don't know me."

"You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love."

"You never know what life is like, until you have lived it."

"Your clothes should be tight enough to show you are a woman, but lose enough to show you?re a lady."

"You're beautiful society is ugly"