The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.

Marilyn is a kind of ultimate. She is uniquely feminine. Everything she does is different, strange, and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso. She makes a man proud to be a man.

When you smile it's like the sun coming up.

I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.

Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen.

Every picture I make, every experience of my private life, every lesson I learn are the keys to my future. And I have faith in it.

When it's over it's over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses.