Marilyn Monroe

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

Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.

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.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.

I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left.

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.

Sometimes good things fall apart so that better things can fall together.

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.