My travels have always been of the same kind. No matter where I've gone or why I've gone there it ends up that I never see anything. Becoming a movie star is living on a merry-go-round. When you travel you take the merry-go-round with you. You don't see natives or new scenery. You see chiefly the same press agents, the same sort of interviewers, and the same picture layouts of yourself.

After all, all we demanded was a right to twinkle.

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

It’s easier to look sexy when you’re thinking of one man in particular.

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.

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.