Real Marilyn Quotes

#1. When you've experienced the real Marilyn, it's difficult to watch a movie about her.' I didn't want to have the memories of my experience tarnished in any way.

Lawrence Schiller

#2. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.

Marilyn Monroe

#3. She [Marilyn Monroe] wasn't the most incredibly beautiful. She's rather ordinary. Cute, but no Rita Hayworth. I think she was ready for the camera, and it was a real destiny for her.

Gail Levin

#4. I want to say to the people, if I am a star, the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did.

Marilyn Monroe

#5. It's not like I turn off Marilyn Manson and I'm an everyday guy who goes and has another job and doesn't think about any of this stuff. Marilyn Manson is the most real thing that can come from me.

Marilyn Manson

#6. I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

Marilyn Monroe

#7. The real motivation of the campaign to criminalize abortion is to establish the principles that women's bodies belong to the state and that women bear the responsibility for sex.

Marilyn French

#8. [On middle age:] ... the very real possibility for you of growing fat as you near death and thus being seen by everyone while you are both DEAD AND FAT ...

Marilyn Suzanne Miller

#9. Middle Age, a restful, welcome break from real life, brings some unique opportunities.

Marilyn Suzanne Miller

#10. What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

Marilyn Monroe

#11. I feel like I've dreamed half of my life that hasn't happened yet, so a lot of times I'm going along, and I do stuff, and I know that I've done it. I have deja vus more than I have regular experiences. If half of your day is a deja vu, then you start to wonder, 'What is real and what isn't?'

Marilyn Manson

#12. I don't think sun-tanned skin is any more attractive than white skin, or any healthier, for that matter

Marilyn Monroe

#13. Sometimes giving means opening up and letting other know you. Sometimes the best thing you can give someone is yourself. The real you. All of you.

Marilyn Grey

#14. The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

Marilyn Monroe

#15. Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden

Marilyn Monroe

#16. Thank you, Mr. MacDougall.
You're a real credit to your race.

Marilyn Hilton

#17. I think Paris Hilton is really our generation's Marilyn Monroe. She's the image of the youth today. There's a real fascination with Paris, ranging on the obsessive. I'm repulsed by her, but because of her notoriety, she has access to an audience.

Matt Tong

#18. Marilyn Monroe and Vivienne Leigh are real icons of mine. In terms of visual culture, they are both so iconic. There weren't any paparazzi shots of them falling out of taxis, so they will always look so incredible.

Lily Cole

#19. It wasn't very useful preparation for the real world: turning all these graduates loose every year with the expectation that life will be fair and everyone will be treated equally.

Marilyn Manson

#20. I doubt if any doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry.

Marilyn Monroe

#21. Marilyn is real. I wake up and I am Marilyn.

Marilyn Manson

#22. The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#23. I never used to bother with exercises. Now I spend at least 10 minutes each morning working out with small weights

Marilyn Monroe

#24. I'm personally opposed to a deep tan because I like to feel blond all over.

Marilyn Monroe

#25. The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.

Marilyn Monroe

#26. But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself.

Marilyn Manson

#27. It is the stories of REAL PEOPLE living REAL LIVES that will define out generation.

Marilyn R. Wilson

#28. My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.

Marilyn Horne

#29. I chose not to jump into the media frenzy and defend myself, though I was begged to be on every single TV show in existence. They want to blame entertainment? Isn't religion the first real entertainment? People dress up in costumes, sing songs and dedicate themselves in eternal fandom.

Marilyn Manson

#30. I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery.

Pixie Lott

#31. Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

Marilyn Ferguson

#32. But what is love if the heart falls for someone else so fast? Was it real?

Marilyn Grey

#33. By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition

Marilyn Monroe

#34. If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Marilyn Manson

#35. Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

Marilyn Manson

#36. Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all

Marilyn Monroe

#37. As an only child, I embrace loneliness. Hollywood loneliness helped to understand Marilyn Monroe in a real way. I was able to portray her very well.

Catherine Hicks