Marilyn Monroe Quotes

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

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy.

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.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

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.

You're always running into people's unconscious.

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

I believe that everything happens for a reason.

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

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

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes.

I'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful.

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

If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell shouldn't schedule a meeting with me before 10am.

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.

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.

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

My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions.

It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

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.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

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

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.

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

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.

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 finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.

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.'

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

Happiness never becomes a habit.

All little girls should be told they are pretty.

I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me.

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

You must feel attractive to be attractive.

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

...I've found out it's fun to go shopping. It's such a feminine thing to do.

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.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.

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.

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.

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

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

No girl should ever forget that she doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her.