Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.

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

You're the beautiful one. It's society that's ugly.

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

You've got a way with words. You got me smiling even when it hurts. There's no way to measure what your love is worth, I can't believe the way you get through to me. ~ Shania Twain If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything

Diamonds are a girls bestfriend

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

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

I think I have always had a little humor.

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.

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.

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.

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

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

A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

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.

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

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

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

I have too much imagination to be a housewife

If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.

A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.

Squeezing yourself to ooze out the last ounce of sex allure is terribly hard. I'd like to do roles like Julie in Bury the Dead, Gretchen in Faust and Teresa in Cradle Song.

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

I want to be an artist, not an erotic freak. I don’t want to be sold to the public as a celluloid aphrodisiac.

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.

A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where she is flat or straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-36 and inches and ages and numbers, by all the outside things that don’t ever add up to who she is on the inside. And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by the things she can control, by who she is and who she is trying to become. Because as every woman knows, measurements are only statistics... and STATISTICS LIE.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.

Anything’s possible, almost.

Do not worry, and worry.

A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

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

I think I made his back feel better.

Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.

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

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

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.

The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.

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