MARILYN MONROE ~~~~"I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful."~~"No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't."~~"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."~~"I've been on a calendar, but never on time."~~"I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy."~~"Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered."~~"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."~~"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on."~~"I'm going to be a great movie star some day."~~"I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since."~~"That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes 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."~~"Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature."~~"I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape."~~"I am invariably late for appointments--sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing."~~"[Hollywood is] a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."~~"I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one."~~"Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that...' But you do want to stay intact--intact and on two feet."~~"It stirs up envy, fame does. People...feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you--and it won't hurt your feelings--like it's happening to your clothing."~~"I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made."~~"Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced them both."~~"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."~~"I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else."~~"Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it."~~"It's all make believe, isn't it?"