Marilyn Monroe Best Quotes & Sayings

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. — Marilyn Monroe

April 10: Marilyn appears on time for six hours of costume tests for Something's Got to Give. She is irritated that Cukor is not there to meet her. She looks radiant, and Peter Levathes tells the press, "This will be the best Monroe picture ever. Marilyn is at the peak of her beauty and ability." But that evening, producer Henry Weinstein finds her sprawled across a bed and unconscious after an overdose of barbiturates. He calls Ralph Greenson, who revives her. It is announced to the press that Marilyn will be part of the entertainment at the president's Madison Square Garden birthday party. Marilyn agrees to pay $1,440.33 for the cost of producing a dress decorated with hand-stitched rhinestones, beading, and mirrors. — Carl Rollyson

I'm personally opposed to a deep tan because I like to feel blond all over. — 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

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

A smile is the best makeup a girl could wear — Marilyn Monroe

Being normal is boring! — Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself. — Mamie Van Doren

all girls are beautiful in their own way — Marilyn Monroe

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

Its an honor to be a part of such a legendary group of stars representing Max Factor, such as Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe, ... Im so excited to start working on the campaign. — Carmen Electra

In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where I fell in love with Marilyn Monroe. I knew that she was the most beautiful woman in the world, and yet she was in pain, in need. She was unhappy. I believed that I could help her. — Edmund White

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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

Marilyn Monroe is pissing me off, Charlie Chaplin owes me twenty bucks, that fucker Shrek tried to fuck my girlfriend at Baskin Robbins. — David Louden

Why does Kubrick always chill our blood, and make us huddled up scared stiff with eyes wide shut? Because even dead he's still "Shinnying" with his old hand and his eye-catching plots. — Ana Claudia Antunes

Ayn Rand brings the best and the worst animal instinct out in humans. Well, excuse me, I aspire to be further evolved ethically than that. I really believe that Ayn Rand is the Marilyn Monroe of philosophy--all seduction, little substance. — John Stuart

Diamonds are a girl's best friend. — Jule Styne

Me being an ant, at her mountain, I would have tried my best for my voice to reach her peak. But our timing was off, and she hid her pain as stars in clouds. If I had the chance, I would have saved her from all the truths and lies. — Anthony Liccione

Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever. — Marilyn Monroe

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

I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like. — Marilyn Monroe

I like to feel blonde all over. — Marilyn Monroe

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

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

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

Wouldnt it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt ... and not get emotionally involved? — 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 a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best. — Marilyn Monroe

Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose money had bought the studio. It was an art that transformed you into somebody else, that increased your life and mind. I had always loved acting and tried hard to learn it. But with Michael Chekhov, acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion. — 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

People always ask me if I believe diamonds are a girl's best friend. Frankly, I don't. — 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

One of the things I like best about men is they're a little vulnerable. — Marilyn Monroe

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls. — Marilyn Monroe

I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress. — Marilyn Monroe

I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me. — Marilyn Monroe

Sisters make the best friends in the world. — Marilyn Monroe

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

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

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

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

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

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

Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy. — Marilyn Monroe

I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle. — Marilyn Monroe

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world. — Gloria Steinem

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? — Marilyn Monroe

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

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

A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano
and dumb. — 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

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

If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best. — Carlos Fuentes

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 want to be an artist, not ... a celluloid aphrodisiac. — Marilyn Monroe

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

Keep it classy, never trashy, just a lil nasty. — Marilyn Monroe

Fear is stupid. So are regrets. -Marilyn Monroe — K. Langston

There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you. — Marilyn Monroe

Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe - windows of the Champs Elysees, discos in the south of Spain, restaurants in Sweden, t-shirts in Moscow. My life was confused and disoriented for years by his passing. My sense of destiny destroyed - the great films he would have directed, the great performances he would have given, the great humanitarian he would have become, and yet, he's the greatest actor and star I have ever known. — Dennis Hopper

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

Do not worry, and worry. — Marilyn Monroe

When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star. — Sally Kirkland

The 'public' scares me, but people I trust. — Marilyn Monroe

I don't digest things with my mind. — Marilyn Monroe

If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul. — Clifford Odets

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. — Marilyn Monroe

A friend tells you what you want to hear;a best friend tells you the truth. — Marilyn Monroe

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

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

ELVIS & MARILYN:
The deader they get -
the more money they make. — Chocolate Waters

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

The happiest time of my life is now. — Marilyn Monroe

The new acts' major influences were movies and their curvy queens Brigitte Bardot and Marilyn Monroe. With their big blonde hair, ample breasts, and highly fertile hips, these bombshells inspired women everywhere to exxagerate their own voluptuousness. — Dita Von Teese

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