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It's all make believe, isn't it?

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If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

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Marilyn Monroe died in 1962, but interest in her

life and her story continues in popular

culture and in feminist studies. Marilyn Monroe,

born Norma Jean Mortensen, was born in 1926, starred in many popular films, married Arthur Miller and Joe

DiMaggio, and died of an overdose of barbiturates.

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I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

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I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

4/11/2009 10I don't want to make money. I just

want to be wonderful.

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Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have

conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.

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My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation -- but I'm working on the

foundation.

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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how

you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand

dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer

often enough and held out for the fifty.

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An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

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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.

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Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

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Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer.

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From the eulogy by Lee Strasberg: She had a luminous quality -- a combination of wistfulness, radiance, yearning, that set her apart and

yet made everyone wish to be part of it, to share in the childlike naiveté which was at once so shy and yet so vibrant.

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I love to do the things the

censors won't pass.

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It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

4/11/2009 21I am trying to prove to myself that I am a person. Then may be I'll

convince myself that I'm an actress.

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My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I

wanted to learn, to change, to improve!

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Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.

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No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

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A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.

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.

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It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

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It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

4/11/2009 28If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.

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I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for

myself and for my talent.

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A career is wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it on a cold night.

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People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd

thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.

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

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About Marilyn Monroe, by her ex-husband, Arthur Miller: To have survived, she would have had to be either more cynical or even further from reality than she was. Instead, she was a poet

on a street corner trying to recite to a crowd pulling at her clothes.

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4/11/2009 35If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question I've got to follow it

through. What am I supposed to do - look intelligent?

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What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an

ordinary woman? A woman who can have a family ... I'd settle for

just one baby. My own baby.

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The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

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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.

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To a reporter: Please don't make me a joke.

4/11/2009 40Everyone's just laughing at me. I hate it. Big breasts, big ass, big deal,

Can't I be anything else ? Gee, how long can you be sexy?

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Shelley Winters: If she'd been dumber, she'd have been happier.

Billy Wilder: The luminosity of that face! There has never been a woman with such voltage on the screen, with the

exception of Garbo.

Also from Lee Strasberg's eulogy: Marilyn Monroe was a legend. In her lifetime she created a myth of what a poor girl from a deprived background could attain. For the entire world she

became a symbol of the eternal feminine.

Groucho Marx: It's amazing. She's Mae West, Theda Bara and Bo Peep all rolled

into one.

4/11/2009 42I restore myself when I'm alone.

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Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to

hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to

him.

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1956 interview about her childhood: Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting

world than the one around me.

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

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It's woman's spirit and mood a man has to

stimulate in order to make sex interesting. The real lover is the man who can thrill

you by touching your head or smiling into

your eyes or just staring into space.

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Men who think that a woman's past love

affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. A woman can bring a

new love to each man she loves, providing

there are not too many.

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Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying

their wives.

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Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.

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Marilyn Monroe was found dead by her housekeeper on August 5, 1962. Her death was ruled as an overdose of sleeping pills. Questions remain about the circumstances and timeline of housekeeper Eunice Murray’s

discovery of Monroe’s body. Also, some conspiracy theories involve John and Robert Kennedy. The official cause of her death was “probable

suicide”.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

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Trinity