Marilyn Monroe

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

“I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.”

“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”

“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.”

“It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.”

“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.”

“Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.”

“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!'”

“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.”

“I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.”

“It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.”

“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.”

“A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.”

“I think I have always had a little humor.”

“I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm 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.”

“Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”

“I restore myself when I'm alone.”

“Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.”

“A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.”

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

“I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.”