Marilyn Monroe Quotes

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

I'm not who you think i am. If you love me, you love me for the wrong reasons.

I know a lot of people think, 'She's so glamorous.' But that's really not me at all.

When you're the object of everyone's affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object. People don't have any interest in loving you for you. Their love for you is for who they think you are.

No one really knows me. People think they know me.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be.

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

You see, you don’t want me to love you. You want the version you’ve made up. The knight, even though I’m the dragon and I always will be.

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

I think that, like anything, people take their image and what they want somebody else to be and then people just run with it. And when you really know the person and really love the person, you recognize that that person is nothing like that.

I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it.

People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

Sometimes with the Palins, it's exactly what it looks like.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn't because they're trying to fool you or because they're hypocrites. It's because they badly want to be that thing, and so they'll try to be it.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.

People create the sort of myths they want to believe about themselves.

I'm kind of used to people trying to define me or, you know, lying about me.

I think everybody who sees me would think that I'm really scary or something. But I'm not!

Sometimes what we see, what's going on in front of us, isn't really what's happening.

You are what you pretend to be.