Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I’ve been admiring since childhood. I always thought that movie stars were exciting and talented people full of special personality. Meeting one of them at a party I discover usually that he (or she) is colorless and even frightened. I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.

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.

I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.