Marilyn Monroe Quotes & Sayings

I believe in everything - a little bit. — Marilyn Monroe

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

I do sin, but I am not the devil. — Marilyn Monroe

I am good, but not an angel. — Marilyn Monroe

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

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it. — Marilyn Monroe

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know. — 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

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that? — Marilyn Monroe

Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe? — Marilyn Monroe

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

I sleep in the nude but I pull the sheets up. — Marilyn Monroe

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman. — Marilyn Monroe

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

I've always wanted a baby. — Marilyn Monroe

Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted. — Marilyn Monroe

all girls are beautiful in their own way — Marilyn Monroe

Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have. — Marilyn Monroe

People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony. — Marilyn Monroe

Enjoy the fact that you're a woman and men will enjoy it too. — Marilyn Monroe

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child. — Marilyn Monroe

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste. — Marilyn Monroe

There is a future, and I can't wait to get to it — Marilyn Monroe

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

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship. — Marilyn Monroe

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. — Marilyn Monroe

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

But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium. — Marilyn Monroe

I don't want to be rich, I just want to be loved. — Marilyn Monroe

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

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

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

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? — Marilyn Monroe

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

Nothing
happens without a reason. — Marilyn Monroe

To know reality (or things as they are than to have not to know and to have few illusions as possible - train my will now — Marilyn Monroe

Everyone's childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand. By this I don't know if I'm just giving up with this conclusion or resigning myself - or maybe for the first time connecting with reality. How do we know the pain or another's earlier years, let alone all that he drags with him since along the way at best a lot of leeway is needed for the other - yet how much is unhealthy for one to bear. I think to love bravely is the best and accept - - as much as one can bear. — Marilyn Monroe

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

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. — Marilyn Monroe

Nights are not just for sleep. — Marilyn Monroe

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

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

Dogs never bite me. Just humans. — Marilyn Monroe

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. — Marilyn Monroe

I think cheesecake helps call attention to you. Then you can follow through and prove yourself. — 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

It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all. — Marilyn Monroe

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

As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together. — Marilyn Monroe

Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope. — Marilyn Monroe

I no i'm not a perfect person but ican make a good relationship last forever ... — Marilyn Monroe

Don't stop when you're tired; stop when you're done. — Marilyn Monroe

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

It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment. — Marilyn Monroe

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? — Marilyn Monroe

Sometimes good things the best things coincide fall apart. — Marilyn Monroe

Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all — 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

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

I never used to bother with exercises. Now I spend at least 10 minutes each morning working out with small weights — 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 sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing. — Marilyn Monroe

In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life. — Marilyn Monroe

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

Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst? — Marilyn Monroe

I think I made his back feel better. — Marilyn Monroe

I have noticed ... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women. — Marilyn Monroe

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men. — Marilyn Monroe

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary. — Marilyn Monroe

I have always felt comfortable in blue jeans. I have found it interesting, however, that people also whistle at blue jeans. I have to admit that I like mine to fit. There's nothing I hate worse than baggy blue jeans. — Marilyn Monroe

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

Men are climbing to the moon, but they don't seem interested in the beating human heart. — Marilyn Monroe

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein. — Marilyn Monroe

The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative. — Marilyn Monroe

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

For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented. — 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

A smart girl leaves before she is left — Marilyn Monroe

The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine. — Marilyn Monroe

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

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

Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.' — Marilyn Monroe

It's better to be angry without paying for gold than to be angry after you paid. — Marilyn Monroe

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

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon. — Marilyn Monroe

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

Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it. — Marilyn Monroe

I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch. — Marilyn Monroe

I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other. — Marilyn Monroe

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really. — Marilyn Monroe

Marriage is the dark side of the honeymoon — Marilyn Monroe

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look. — 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

I think every human being knows how to hate. Because if they didn't know how to hate how to hate they wouldn't know how to love. — Marilyn Monroe

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.' — Marilyn Monroe

I'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful. — Marilyn Monroe

Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine. — Marilyn Monroe

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. — Marilyn Monroe

Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others. — Marilyn Monroe