Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Money, Loving Life, Acting
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  Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Money

  Quoted in Marilyn Monroe in Her OwnWords (1990)

• If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Broken Heart, Women

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

• A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Being Alone, Creativity, Careers

  Quoted in Ms., Aug. 1972

• It's all make believe, isn't it?

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Life, Believe

• Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Giving Up, Preparation

• As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Art, Psychology, Good Man

• I love to do the things the censors won't pass.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspiring, Acting

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

• I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Party, Idols

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.153, Rowman & Littlefield

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

  Marilyn Monroe

  Sex, Stars, Acting

• An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Money, Acting, Machines

  Ms. Magazine (p. 38), August 1972.

• In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, Kissing, Soul

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.53, Taylor Trade Publishing

• This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping the child to them, they start punishing the child. Like you don't dare get a cold. How dare you get a cold! I mean, the executives can get colds and stay home forever and phone it in, but how dare you, the actor, get a cold or a virus. You know, no one feels worse than the one who's sick. I sometimes wish, gee, I wish they had to act a comedy with a temperature and a virus infection.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Mother, Running, Children

• I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Mind, Acting

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

• My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Learning, Clothes

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.64, Rowman & Littlefield

• Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose money had bought the studio. It was an art that transformed you into somebody else, that increased your life and mind. I had always loved acting and tried hard to learn it. But with Michael Chekhov, acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Art, Men

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.171, Rowman & Littlefield

• When you have only a single dream it is more than likely to come true - because you keep working toward it without getting mixed up.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Dream, Acting

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.159, Taylor Trade Publishing

• I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.

  Marilyn Monroe

  People, Trying, Acting

• Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Acting, Needed

• There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

• Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, People, Laughing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Winning, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Acting, Too Much

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

• There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Thinking, People, Secret

• 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.

  Marilyn Monroe

  People, Giving, Acting

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