Marilyn Quotes

Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me.

There was definitely a lack of any sort of villain in the Clinton era, which is why when Columbine happened, it was easy to pick on me. My face was around and it made good TV.

To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded.

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.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.

Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido!

I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots

You know, most people really don't know me.

You can read about yourself but what's important is how you feel about yourself.

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

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.

If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell shouldn't schedule a meeting with me before 10am.

I wanna be loved by you, just you, nobody else but you.

Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all

Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.

[Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do.

I think people are more likely to think it's better to find something new. That mentality has affected all of our thinking.

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.

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

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

only that which is deeply felt can change us. Rational arguments alone cannot penetrate the layers of fear and conditioning that comprise our crippling belief system.

Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.

I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.

It isn't success after all, is it, if it isn't an expression of your deepest energies?

there's no justice, there's only love.

Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.

I wish you would notice that you are heterosexual.

Women love a sick child or a healthy animal; A man who is both itches them like an incubus.

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up.

God will grovel before me, God will crawl at my feet.

When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore.

If you dont educate your kids... I will.

America puts killers on the cover of Time magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.

I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me.

...the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue - it's been happening every day for a long time.

Once I threw a water bottle from the stage into the audience, and it hit Tony Bennett in the head. It was a special moment for me.

I put out a lot of ideas in the lyrics and the way I do my things. There's a lot of ideas floatin' around and people who know what it is. People will pick it up if they know what to pick up.

To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.

I get shocked by people smoking cigarettes sometimes. i get shocked by watching talk shows. people's moralities are so far below what i would consider standard.

If anybody wants to be a rock star they've gotta try hard enough. They're not gonna get it handed to them

My fans make me feel as young as they are. We share the same spirit and I share their outlook on life

I refuse to say things behind people's backs.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

The Internet is the trailer park for the soul.