About Acting

"All I want is to play something different - The Strasbergs say I can."

"As a person my work is important to me. My work is the only ground I‘ve ever had to stand on. Acting is very important. To put it bluntly I seem to have a whole super-structure with no foundation, but I‘m working for the foundation."

"I don‘t want to play the Brothers, I want to play Grushenka; that‘s a girl‘s part."

"I think I have one talent, I think it‘s observing. I hope that it adds up to acting. I hope to put it to good use."

About Arthur Miller

"Movies are my business, but Arthur is my life."

"If Mr. Miller had a beard, he‘d look like Lincoln."

"We‘re so congenial. This is the first time I think I‘ve been really in love. Arthur is a serious man, but he has a wonderful sense of humor. We laugh and joke a lot. I‘m mad about him."

"He was going to make my life different - better, a lot better. If I were nothing but a dumb blonde, he wouldn‘t have married me."

About Fame

"I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. 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 experienced, but that‘s not were I live."

"I feel as though it‘s all happening to someone right next to me. I‘m close, I can feel it, I can hear it, but it isn‘t really me."

About Herself

"If you ask me, I think I‘m a mixture, of what I don‘t know."

"I‘m definitely a woman and I enjoy it."

Often asked is she wore falsies, Marilyn replied...

"Those who know me better know better."

"Everything I have is my own."

About Hollywood

"Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The dissillusion comes when I meet a movie star I've been admiring since childhood."

"New York is my home now. Hollywood is just a place to work in."

About Joe DiMaggio

When Marilyn divored from Joe in late 1955 she said...

"I had hoped for love, warmth and affection and understanding, but all I got was coolness and indifference."

In 1961 and 1962 Marilyn was seeing Joe DiMaggio again on a regular basis. She said...

"Thank God for Joe, thank God"

About Love and Marriage

"I know it‘s considered chic for a husband and wife to have separate bedrooms, but I'm an old-fashioned girl who believes a husband and wife should share the same bedroom and bed."

"For a man and a wife to live intimately together is no easy thing at best. If it‘s not just exactly right in every way it‘s practically impossible. However, I‘m still optimistic."

About Men

Marilyn Monroe was once asked what she didn‘t like about men...

"Nothing that I can think of."

"The reality is very different - it‘s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far."

About Persons

Jose Bolanos...

"I hear he makes the worst movies in Mexico - but what do I care? Everything else he does is incredible."

Tony Curtis...

[During Some Like It Hot he said about Marilyn...

"Kissing Marilyn Monroe was like kissing Hitler."] And Marilyn replied...

"He only said that because I wore prettier dresses than he did."

Clark Gable...

"He never got angry with me once for blowing a line or being late or anything - he was a gentlemen. The best."

Yves Montand...

"Next to my husband and along with Marlon Brando, Yves Montand is the most attractive man I‘ve ever met."

Jane Russell...

"We got along nicely - Jane called me the ‘round one’ - I don‘t know what she means by that, but I assume she means it to be friendly."

Frank Sinatra...

"I can‘t tie him down, not Frankie, but I‘ll always love him."

About Sex

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

"People have curious attitudes about nudity, just as they have

about sex. Nudity and sex are the most commonplace things

in the world. Yet people often act as if they were things that

existed only on Mars."

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