Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.
From Marilyn Monroe
I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.
I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.
It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.
I wish I knew why I am so anguished.
We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.
Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.
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