Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Fame

Quotes about: Fame

• It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Hurt, People, Giving

  Quoted in Ms., Aug. 1972

• It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again. But I believe you’re always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. Fame will go by, and, so long, I’ve had you fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Believe, Long, People

• Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Fame

• All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Hurt, Worry

• If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

  "Marilyn Monroe Pours Her Heart Out". Interview with Richard Meryman, LIFE Magazine, August 3, 1962; later quoted in Ms. Magazine, August 1972.

• With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Ideas, Survival, Important

• I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Thinking, Weakness, Fame

  "Marilyn Monroe Pours Her Heart Out". Interview with Richard Meryman, LIFE Magazine, August 3, 1962.

• Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness ... fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Meals, Caviar, Fame

• 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

  Real, Mind, Special

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

  Marilyn Monroe

  Long, May, Fame

• Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Meals, Caviar

  "Marilyn Monroe Pours Her Heart Out". Interview with Richard Meryman, LIFE Magazine (p. 38), August 3, 1962.

• When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Running, Envy, Doe

  "Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress". Book by Carl E. Rollyson, 1993.

• You can read about yourself but what's important is how you feel about yourself.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Important, How You Feel, Fame

• Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Fickle, Fame

• It stirs up envy, fame does.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Envy, Doe, Fame

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

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