Marilyn Quotes

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
- Marilyn Monroe


A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
- Marilyn Monroe


An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
- Marilyn Monroe


Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
- Marilyn Monroe


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


Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
- Marilyn Monroe


Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
- Marilyn Monroe


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.
- Marilyn Monroe


First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
- Marilyn Monroe


Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
- Marilyn Monroe


Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
- Marilyn Monroe


I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
- Marilyn Monroe


I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
- Marilyn Monroe


I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.
- Marilyn Monroe


I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
- Marilyn Monroe


I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
- Marilyn Monroe


I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
- Marilyn Monroe


I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
- Marilyn Monroe


I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
- Marilyn Monroe


I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
- Marilyn Monroe


I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
- Marilyn Monroe


I restore myself when I'm alone.
- Marilyn Monroe


I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
- Marilyn Monroe


I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
- Marilyn Monroe


I've never dropped anyone I believed in.
- Marilyn Monroe


If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
- Marilyn Monroe


If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.
- Marilyn Monroe


It's all make believe, isn't it?
- Marilyn Monroe


It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
- Marilyn Monroe


It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
- Marilyn Monroe


It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
- Marilyn Monroe


It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
- Marilyn Monroe


Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
- Marilyn Monroe


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.
- Marilyn Monroe


No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
- Marilyn Monroe


Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
- Marilyn Monroe


The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
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The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
- Marilyn Monroe


The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
- Marilyn Monroe


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.
- Marilyn Monroe


To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.
- Marilyn Monroe


What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
- Marilyn Monroe


I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe


I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe


Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
- Marilyn Monroe


A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe


If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
- Marilyn Monroe


I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
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When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
- Marilyn Monroe


If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
- Marilyn Monroe


Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
- Marilyn Monroe


The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.
- Marilyn Monroe


Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
- Marilyn Monroe


Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?
- Marilyn Monroe


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.
- Marilyn Monroe


Who said nights were for sleep?
- Marilyn Monroe


She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know
- Marilyn Monroe


The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
- Marilyn Monroe


We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
- Marilyn Monroe


We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
- Marilyn Monroe


If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere.
- Marilyn Monroe


Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
- Marilyn Monroe


I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
- Marilyn Monroe


Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
- Marilyn Monroe


Diamonds are a girls best friend.
- Marilyn Monroe


I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.
- Marilyn Monroe


I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
- Marilyn Monroe


If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?
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I've been on a calendar, but never on time.
- Marilyn Monroe


I love to do the things the censors won't pass.
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I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.
- Marilyn Monroe


You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.
- Marilyn Monroe


We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.
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Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.
- Marilyn Monroe


I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.
- Marilyn Monroe


I read poetry to save time.
- Marilyn Monroe


Die Liebe und die Arbeit sind die beiden einzigen wahren Dinge in unserem Leben. Sie gehören zusammen, sonst ist es schief. Die Arbeit ist selbst eine Form der Liebe.

Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.
- Marilyn Monroe


Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.
- Marilyn Monroe


its better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what your not
- Marilyn Monroe


I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
- Marilyn Monroe


Nieważne co o mnie myślą, ważne żeby mnie kochali.
- Marilyn Monroe


This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, somg go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And babve, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up becuase if you give up, you'll never find your soul mate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.
- Marilyn Monroe