Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?
I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
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.
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.
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.
I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.
I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.
There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.
I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.
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.
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.
I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.
Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
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.
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.
A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
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.
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.
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Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.
The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'
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.