Marilyn Monroe Quotes

If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best.

I was never happy as a child, so it wasn't something I took for granted.i did'nt grow up as an average, american child. An average child grows up with an expectation of being happy.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

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 their right.

I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.

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

Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?

The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.

Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady

After all, all we demanded was a right to twinkle.

I feel that beauty and femininity are ageless

You must feel attractive to be attractive.

I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

I doubt if any doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry.

Maybe I'll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.

There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

You can read about yourself but what's important is how you feel about yourself.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

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

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.

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.

I don't think sun-tanned skin is any more attractive than white skin, or any healthier, for that matter

Change is actually what you need to avoid.
Assimilation is much more joyful than conformity,
when you try to change you try to fit yourself to other people's standards.
You deny your own values and opinions, and you adopt a personality that isn't you.
And most likely you will be more uncomfortable even though it may seem like you fit in more, i would suggest you not to change. Just be yourself, the way you are.
Because that's what makes you different and distinguishable and unique from every other individual.

Sometimes I think I was more in control of my life years and years ago, and yet one should make progress; one should learn more every year and become ... well, if not happier, then calmer and more able to handle your problems. But I'm not. Sometimes I just seem to make more problems for myself. I do. It makes me feel I haven't grown up as much as I should have by now.

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

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

Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?

When it gets hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the ice box.

Just because you've failed once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything.

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

I've never dropped anyone I believed in.

I don't want you to feel depressed, honey. We've had a temporary setback.

Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.

I've always wanted a baby.

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.

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

Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.

Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right.

I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.

open your eyes^_^
and look within....
are you satisfied with the life,
........U are liVing?????????

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.

I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember?

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

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

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.

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.

I believe in everything - a little bit.

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

Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one ... I want to be an artist,
an actress with integrity.

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

Wouldnt it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt ... and not get emotionally involved?

Wise girls kiss but never love
Listen but never believe
And leave befor they are left

I just want to be wonderful.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.

Couldn't we end this interview with what I really want to say? That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship
everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. If we could end this article saying just that, we'd get down to what we should all be talking about. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.

Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?

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

It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.

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.

My travels have always been of the same kind. No matter where I've gone or why I've gone there it ends up that I never see anything. Becoming a movie star is living on a merry-go-round. When you travel you take the merry-go-round with you. You don't see natives or new scenery. You see chiefly the same press agents, the same sort of interviewers, and the same picture layouts of yourself.

When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.

Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me - and that I've made of myself - as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it

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

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.

Don't stop when you're tired; stop when you're done.

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

It's easier to look sexy when you're thinking of one man in particular.

The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex ... Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges.

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

I have too much imagination to be a housewife

Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that' But you do want to stay intact-intact and on two feet.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

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 think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

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

A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.

Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.

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

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

Happiness is not in money, but in shopping.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50?

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

Nights are not just for sleep.

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

When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.

When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.