Marilyn Monroe

"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've made."

"Fear is stupid. So are regrets."

"I restore myself when I'm alone."

"Sometimes I think it is history that uses us to achieve its purposes."

"The real lover is the man who can thrill you by touching your head or smiling into your eyes."

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

"It always strikes me as funny that actors are the last people to know anything."

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

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

"We should all start to live before we get too old."

"A woman knows by intuition or instinct what is best for herself."

"Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything."

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

"You can dress shabbily and conduct yourself like a lady, but you cannot be shabby in your mind or in your heart."

"I've often stood silent when I should have spoken up and I've often spoken when I should have stayed quiet."

"I want my name to mean something interesting instead of a line of crap on a movie house on Broadway."

"To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation."

"Diamonds are a girl's best friend, but a woman's real treasure is her independence."

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle."

"Awards become corroded, friendships are what endure."

"It's nice to be included in people's fantasies, but you also like to be accepted for your own reality."

"I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood scene, a salad is better than a fat headline."

"We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle."

"Life should not be printed on dollar bills."

"The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves."

"I want to be remembered as a woman who wanted to be free."

"A man might prefer a woman in a fur coat. It's weaker than preferring her without it."

"Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way."

"Some people have been unkind. If I say people have been cruel and defaulted on marriage obligations, I do so not with bitterness but with regret."