Marilyn Monroe Quotes

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

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

Who said nights were for sleep?

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.

Dogs never bite me - just humans.

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

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

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

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

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

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.

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

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

It's all make believe, isn't it?

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

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

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

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

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

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

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?

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.

To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one, its society who's ugly.

I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.

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

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

A girl does not need anyone who does not need her.

A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best.

There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos.

Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.

People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.

It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.

Always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie?

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 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.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

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

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

Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

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

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