Marilyn Monroe Acting Quotations

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.

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

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

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

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've read all of Shakespeare and practiced a lot of lines. ... I am going to do Juliet first. Don't laugh. What, with what makeup, costume and camera can do, my acting will create a Juliet who is 14, an innocent virgin.

Acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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!

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