"I'm not interested in money.I just want to be wonderful!"
Marilyn's make-up kit.
Marilyn used to wash her face up to 15 times a day.
She used to apply vaseline or olive oil on her face when at home, because she believed that this way her face would remain fresh and young.
As soon as she returned home, she would wipe out completely all make up from her face.
Marilyn didn't want to become a blonde. She decided to have her hair bleached only after both her model agent and a photographer insisted she should change her hair colour.
Marilyn always wore false eye lashes and eye-liner on her upper eyelid. She used to wear white eye-shadow in order to add "light" to her look.She would combine it with brown or dusty blue eye-shadows.
Marilyn used to brush her hair towards the left.
She always slept with her bra' on, in order to preserve the muscle tone.
Marilyn didn't like to show her hands on the screen, because she thought they were fat.
She put on a combination of many different lipstick colours in order to make her lips look full.
She underwent two minor corrective plastic surgeries (nose-chin). She also had her upper front teeth fixed.
After Marilyn died, her hairdresser was called to fix Marilyn's hair for the funeral, but he collapsed in the mortuary. They had to use a wig instead.
Snyder (Marilyn's make-up man) used to say that Marilyn had many make-up secrets, which not even a professional make up artist knows.
Marilyn used to brush her teeth with baking soda every day in order to whiten them.
Marilyn loved cooking. She had even bought a receipe book called "The joy of cooking". Her comments about it: "I started from scratch. In fact, from below scratch. I bought a book called "The Joy of Cooking". Maybe it's joyous, but I notice that some people seem to find it quite tedious. My favourite cooking is baking; very good at baking bread".
Cooking with S.Signoret
Marilyn loved the sea, but she had a tendency to get sea-sick.
Marilyn's first charge account was opened at Martindale's Bookstore.
In 1951 Marilyn took an evening course at UCLA. It was called "Backgrounds in Literature".
Marilyn loved musicals.
In 1960 Marilyn became a sponsor of S.A.N.E. ( committee for a sane nuclear policy).
She never swam in the pool of her Brentwood home.
Marilyn loved using taxi cabs.
"For breakfast I have two raw eggs beaten in a glass of hot milk. I never eat dessert. My nail polish is transparent. I never wear stockings or underclothes because I think it is important to breathe freely. I wash my hair every day and I'm always brushing it. Every morning I walk across my apartment rolling an empty soda bottle between my ankles, in order to preserve my balance."
Marilyn with Snyder, her makeup artist with her hairdresser
"You sit alone. It's night outside. Automobiles roll Sunset Boulevard like an endless string of beetles. Their rubber tires make a purring, high-class noise. You're hungry and you say, "It's not good for my waistline to eat". There's nothing finer than a washboard belly".
"I know what it means to go without breakfast!"
"I walk, exercise and study body control"
"My ass is way too big. They tell me men like it like that. Crazy huh?"
"And movement is, well, movement is good! 
"A photographer once told me that my two best points are between my waist and and my neck."
"I love food as long as it has flavour!"
"If you get massages, you'll never need another sleeping pill."
" I like different scents of perfume besides Chanel 5"
"I would take home photographs of myself to study how I looked and if I could improve myself posing in front of a mirror for hours and hours."
" It isn't Marilyn Monroe in the tub but Norma Jeane. I'm giving Norma Jeane a treat. She used to have to bathe in water as clean and transparent as a pane of glass. And it seems that Norma Jeane can't get enough of fresh bath water that smells of real perfume."
"I don't sunbathe because I like to feel blonde all over."
"I can walk for hours and enjoy it".
"I like to wear chic clothes or nothing at all. Something in between does not please me at all."
"I always wear clothes appropriate to the occasion."
