Marilyn Monroe on Hollywood

“Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.”

“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."”