Marilyn Monroe

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50?

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

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.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!'

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing 'Happy Birthday,' like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!'