I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

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

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.

The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

I've never liked the name Marilyn. I've often wished that I had held out that day for Jean Monroe. But I guess it's too late to do anything about it now.