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

Monroe: "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."

Monroe: "Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature."

Monroe: "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."

Monroe: "Fear is stupid. So are regrets."

Monroe: "When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries."

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

Monroe: "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."

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

Monroe: "Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you."

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

Monroe: "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."

Monroe: "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."

Monroe: "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."

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

Monroe: "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."

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

Monroe: "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."

Monroe: "I restore myself when I'm alone."

Monroe: "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."

Monroe: "I defy gravity."

Monroe: "I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Monroe: "Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak."