You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

Everybody says I can't act. They said the same thing about Elizabeth Taylor. And they were wrong. She was great in A Place in the Sun. I'll never get the right part, anything I really want. My looks are against me. They're too specific.

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

I was never happy as a child, so it wasn't something I took for granted.i did'nt grow up as an average, american child. An average child grows up with an expectation of being happy.

I didn't pay much attention to the whistles and whoops, in fact, I didn't quite hear them. I was full of a strange feeling, as if I were two people. One of them was Norma Jeane from the orphanage who belonged to nobody; the other was someone whose name I didn't know. But I knew where she belonged; she belonged to the ocean and the sky and the whole world.