A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of.
In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.
After all, all we demanded was a right to twinkle.
I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.
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.
Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.
I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.
I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.
I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.
Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.
What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.
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?
How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.
I've never liked the name Marilyn. I've often wished that I had held out that day for Jean Monroe. But I guess it's too late to do anything about it now.
I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.
Sex is nature, and I believe in going along with nature.
Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.
I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.
Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.
My heart belongs to daddy.
Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all
For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.
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