Quotes About Identity

I have been described as a lighthouse in the middle of a bog: Brilliant but useless.

I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965, my baseball card came out with no picture.

He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings.

Im a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

What are the three words guaranteed to humiliate men everywhere? 'Hold my purse'.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

One of the hallmarks of the baby boomer generation is that it doesnt live like the previous generation. It hasnt yet given up jeans and T-shirts or beer.

Dont let the spike hair fool you, like I'm not a b*tch.

Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys ' but women accept being called 'girls.'

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 experience, but that's not where I live.

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?