Marilyn Monroe

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

"I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes."

"You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love."

"I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy."

"That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it be sex than some of the things we've got symbols of... I just hate to be a thing."

"I know I will never be happy but I know I can be gay! Remember I told you Kazan said I was the gayest girl he ever knew and, believe me, he has known many. But he loved me for one year and once rocked…"

"The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body — you know? It just doesn't seem feminine."

"Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives."