Marilyn Monroe Quotes

I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me, tugging at me, as if they wanted a piece of me. It was always, 'do this, do that,' and not just on the job but off, too. God, I've tried to stay intact, whole.

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

I keep my undies in the icebox!

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?

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.

The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.

Happiness is not in money, but in shopping.

I am good, but not an angel.

There is a need for aloneness... 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.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker.

I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.

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

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.

The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.

It was my fans who made me a star.

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

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have.

I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.

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

Beneath the makeup & behind the smile I'm just the girl who wishes for the world. A wise girl kisses, but doesn't love. Listens but dosen't believe. And leaves before she is left. If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything. It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself, what's the good of being anything at all?

It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.

You know, most people really don't know me.

Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.

I have never liked sex. I do not think I ever will. It just seems the opposite of love.

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

I don't digest things with my mind.

The happiest time of my life is now.

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?

It's all make believe, isn't it?

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

I believe in everything - a little bit.

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.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping the child to them, they start punishing the child. Like you don't dare get a cold. How dare you get a cold! I mean, the executives can get colds and stay home forever and phone it in, but how dare you, the actor, get a cold or a virus. You know, no one feels worse than the one who's sick. I sometimes wish, gee, I wish they had to act a comedy with a temperature and a virus infection.

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

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

Ever since I became a movie star,I've been really weird.

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

I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots

Just because you've failed once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything.

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