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 never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.

What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?

If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best.

It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.