Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine. But if being an oligarch is about buying football clubs, it is not for me.

I want to be with someone who wants to work as much as I do and who respects me like I respect him.

I have one speed, I have one gear: go!

Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region.

It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to... In L.A., I'm just another character actor.

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

I always adored Cary Grant. I was fascinated by him. But I could never get too close to him.

Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.

Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.

I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.

I always love going to Paris, and now I feel like I know it really well.

In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat.

Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.

I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.

My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.