Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspiring, Children

• 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

• 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

• Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?

  Marilyn Monroe

  Giving, Trying, Bottles

• Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Party, Character

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.130, Taylor Trade Publishing

• Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Giving Up, Ambition

• 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

• Everyone’s childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand. By this I don’t know if I’m just giving up with this conclusion or resigning myself — or maybe for the first time connecting with reality. How do we know the pain or another’s earlier years, let alone all that he drags with him since along the way at best a lot of leeway is needed for the other — yet how much is unhealthy for one to bear. I think to love bravely is the best and accept — as much as one can bear.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Pain, Giving Up, Reality

  Marilyn's personal diaries (1958), as quoted in "Fragments" by Stanley Buchthal and Bernard Comment, 2010.

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