Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Sisters make the best friends in the world.

Next to my husband and along with Marlon Brando, Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

I've never dropped anyone I believed in.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50?

How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.

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.

I've always wanted a baby.

I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

My heart belongs to daddy.

Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.

I'm thirty-six years old. I'm just getting started!

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead.

Enjoy the fact that you're a woman and men will enjoy it too.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

I've read all of Shakespeare and practiced a lot of lines. ... I am going to do Juliet first. Don't laugh. What, with what makeup, costume and camera can do, my acting will create a Juliet who is 14, an innocent virgin.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

I never used to bother with exercises. Now I spend at least 10 minutes each morning working out with small weights

Joe: You don't want me, Sugar. I'm a liar and a phony. A saxophone player. One of those no-goodniks you keep running away from. Sugar: I know, every time. Joe: Sugar, do yourself a favor. Go back to where the millionaires are, the sweet end of the lollipop, not the cole slaw in the face, the old socks and the squeezed-out tube of toothpaste. Sugar: That's right. Pour it on. Talk me out of it. (She grabs him to kiss him.)

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.

That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.

Love is something you cant invent, no matter how much you want to.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Everybody says I can't act. They said the same thing about Elizabeth Taylor. And they were wrong. She was great in A Place in the Sun. I'll never get the right part, anything I really want. My looks are against me. They're too specific.

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.

all girls are beautiful in their own way

When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.

A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don't put into it!

I have always felt comfortable in blue jeans. I have found it interesting, however, that people also whistle at blue jeans. I have to admit that I like mine to fit. There's nothing I hate worse than baggy blue jeans.

I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.

They will only care when you're gone.

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'

No sex is wrong, if there's love in it.

I want the world to see my body.

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.

I hear you're looking for a sexy blonde to play with the Marx Brothers. Would you like to see me. I'm blonde and I'm sexy.

Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?

It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again. But I believe you’re always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. Fame will go by, and, so long, I’ve had you fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.

Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

Jewish men don't know anything.