Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Within crisis, are the seeds of opportunity.

(about her teen years) My admirers all said the same thing in different ways. It was my fault, their wanting to kiss and hug me.

Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness ... fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day.

Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that' But you do want to stay intact-intact and on two feet.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside".

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

Sometimes good things the best things coincide fall apart.

The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.

When you have only a single dream it is more than likely to come true - because you keep working toward it without getting mixed up.

Creativity has got to start with humanity.

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

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.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.

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.

a struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine.

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

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.

Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.

Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous

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

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

I'm going to be a great movie star some day.

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

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.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody - I don't know who or what - maybe myself. I have feelings some days where there are scenes with a lot of responsibility, and I'll wish, 'Gee, if only I had been a cleaning woman.'

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.

I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.

My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!

It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.

Nights are not just for sleep.

Friends accept you the way you are.

I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me- and that I've made of myself- as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it.

As long as I can remember, I've always loved people.

I don't think sun-tanned skin is any more attractive than white skin, or any healthier, for that matter

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

Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido!

What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

I learned to walk when I was ten months old and I've been walking this way ever since.

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

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.