I restore myself when I'm alone.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

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

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.

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

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

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

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

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

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.

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.

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

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.

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 don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I like to feel blonde all over.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

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

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

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

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.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

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

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

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

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

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

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

Dogs never bite me - just humans.

Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so.

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.

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

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

Friends accept you the way you are.

I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

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