Marilyn Monroe Quotes

I remember the day I discovered James Dean and Marilyn Monroe. I don't know why it affected me so strongly, but I walked down to the corner store and bought every poster of them, and I did my whole room up. Overnight. ~ Gwen Stefani

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

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. ~ Marilyn Monroe

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her. ~ Oscar Levant

Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together ~ Marilyn Monroe

I hear you're looking for a sexy blonde to play with the Marx Brothers. Would you like to see me. I'm blonde and I'm sexy. ~ Marilyn Monroe

I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that. ~ Liza Minnelli

If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'
Clawing at the roof of her coffin. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

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. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered ... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture. ~ Marilyn Monroe

A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don't put into it! ~ Marilyn Monroe

A person can attack that bottle of vodka and drink it like it's a bottle of cold water. Two of my wife's girlfriends died from drinking. They weren't big pill-takers; they were drinkers. So it can't be so simple as to slide away, like Marilyn Monroe. ~ William Eggleston

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. ~ Marilyn Monroe

For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that's-she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when the night was over and the white wine was over and the dancing was over, she sat in the corner like a child, with everything gone. I saw her sitting quietly without expression on her face, and I walked towards her but I wouldn't photograph her without her knowledge of it. And as I came with the camera, I saw that she was not saying no. ~ Richard Avedon

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

I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe. ~ Elizabeth Hurley

I didn't mind being a goof if only he loved me. I felt when we were together that I walked in the gutter and he on the sidewalk. All I did was keep looking up to see if there was love in his eyes ~ Marilyn Monroe

Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere. ~ Marilyn Monroe

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

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

It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you. ~ 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

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing 'Happy Birthday,' like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!' ~ Marilyn Monroe

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers! ~ Marilyn Monroe

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

I have too much imagination to be a housewife ~ Marilyn Monroe

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

We were scared. I guess when you're in your twenties, that's how it is. You've got an adult body, but you're trying to make it work with a kid's emotions. With Marilyn and me, it was worse. Our kid emotions didn't even work. We'd been treated too poorly. ~ Tony Curtis

You must feel attractive to be attractive. ~ Marilyn Monroe

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

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

Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure. ~ Marilyn Monroe

I've given pure sex appeal very little thought. If I had to think about it I'm sure it would frighten me. ~ Marilyn Monroe

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

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. ~ Marilyn Monroe

But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can. ~ Pete Townshend

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

Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wide single bed, and I use only one heavy down comforter over me, summer or winter. I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep. ~ Marilyn Monroe

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

I'm thirty-six years old. I'm just getting started! ~ Marilyn Monroe

People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually. ~ James Earl Jones

Happiness is not in money, but in shopping. ~ Marilyn Monroe

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

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

How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl. ~ Marilyn Monroe

The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will?? ~ Marilyn Monroe

Being blonde now doesn't mean Marilyn Monroe vulnerability. Blonde in the Eighties means being in control. ~ Kim Wilde

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

Even being close to L.A., I was always inspired by old movies and Marilyn Monroe and the glamour of Hollywood. ~ Gwen Stefani

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

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world. ~ Bette Midler

I've lived long enough to know that life doesn't always stick to the rules...The perfectly impossible and absolutely ridiculous keep happening all the time. ~ Elizabeth Winder

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

Back on the Hauser regime, I start the day with his notorious "pep breakfast"
two raw eggs beaten in orange juice. Hauser describes it as a "creamy drink fit for a King's table." I do not feel the same way. This is so much worse than the raw eggs in milk that I drank for the Marilyn Monroe diet.
If pneumonia were a food, this is what it would taste like. ~ Rebecca Harrington

Marilyn Monroe and Vivienne Leigh are real icons of mine. In terms of visual culture, they are both so iconic. There weren't any paparazzi shots of them falling out of taxis, so they will always look so incredible. ~ Lily Cole

I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very far away from that ... So I love very curvy girls. ~ Carine Roitfeld

I basically read every book ever written about Marilyn Monroe. ~ Megan Fox

Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one. ~ Marilyn Monroe

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

I learned also that the best way to keep out of trouble was by never complaining or asking for anything. ~ Marilyn Monroe

I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it sounds horrible but when she dies all her pictures are going to be worth triple. But I won't tell you how much I got them for - let's just say it was a lot. ~ Melanie Brown

I've fallen in love with Brooklyn. I'm going to buy a little house in Brooklyn and live there. I'll go to the coast only when I have to make a picture. ~ Marilyn Monroe

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

But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend. ~ Marilyn Monroe

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

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? ~ Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her. ~ Tony Randall

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best. ~ Marilyn Manson

I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection. ~ Marilyn Monroe

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay! ~ Marilyn Monroe

I've always thought Marilyn Monroe looked fabulous, but I'd kill myself if I was that fat ... I went to see her clothes in the exhibition, and I wanted to take a tape measure and measure what her hips were. She was very big. ~ Elizabeth Hurley

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

I haven't said it yet, but it seemed implied, that cinema for me was the American one, current Hollywood productions. "My" period goes roughly from The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (Henry Hathaway, 1935) with Gary Cooper and Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd, 1935) with Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, to the death of Jean Harlow (which I relived many years later like the death of Marilyn Monroe, in an era more aware of the neurotic power of every symbol), with lots of comedies in between, the mystery-romances with Myrna Loy and William Powell and the dog Asta, the musicals of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the crime pictures of Chinese detective Charlie Chan and the horror films of Boris Karloff. I didn't remember the names of the directors as well as the names of the actors, except for a few like Frank Capra, Gregory La Cava, and Frank Borzage, who represented the poor rather than the millionaires, usually with Spencer Tracy: they were the good-natured directors from the Roosevelt era; I learned this later; back then I consumed everything without distinguishing between them too much. American cinema in that moment consisted of a collection of actors' faces without equal before or after (at least it seemed that way to me) and the adventures were simple mechanisms to get these faces together (sweethearts, character actors, extras) in different combinations. ~ Italo Calvino

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress. ~ Marilyn Monroe

All men are the same. They just have different faces so that women differentiate them. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat? ~ Marilyn Monroe

In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Happiness never becomes a habit. ~ Marilyn Monroe

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

I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery. ~ Pixie Lott

I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape. ~ Marilyn Monroe

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

I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to. ~ Marilyn Monroe

A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of gay men feel that way because of their particular predicament in society and not being accepted completely. ~ Madonna Ciccone

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. ~ Marilyn Monroe

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. ~ Marilyn Monroe

You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe gave more to the still camera than any actress, any woman I've ever photographed; infinitely more patient, more demanding of herself and more comfortable in front of the camera than away from it. ~ Richard Avedon

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

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

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. ~ Marilyn Monroe

I just want to be wonderful. ~ Marilyn Monroe

We think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America. Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards. ~ Norman Mailer