Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Marilyn Monroe Quotes And Sayings

“Sometimes you just have to throw on a crown and remind them who they’re dealing with.” – Marilyn Monroe

“Keep smiling because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” – Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Money

“We should all start to live before we get old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.” – Marilyn Monroe

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 “Imperfection is a beauty. Madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” – Marilyn Monroe

 “A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left.” – Marilyn Monroe

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 “You better believe when the conversation is getting shorter with you… it’s getting longer with someone else.” – Marilyn Monroe

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“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.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Quotes About love

“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times tough to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” – Marilyn Monroe

 “A girl knows her limits but a wise girl knows she has none.” – Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Quotes Im Selfish

“If I worry about other bitches, I’d be just like them… another worried b***h.” – Marilyn Monroe

“When it comes down to it, let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I’m already better than them anyway.” – Marilyn Monroe

 “I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil, and I am just a small girl in a big world. Trying to find someone to love.” – Marilyn Monroe

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 “I think that love and work are the only things that really happen to us.” – Marilyn Monroe

 “Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe

 “A girl doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her.” – Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Beauty Quotes

 “Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?” – Marilyn Monroe

“Sweetie, if you’re going to be two-faced, at least make one of them pretty.” – Marilyn Monroe

 “Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” – Marilyn Monroe

“Always, always, always believe in yourself. Because if you don’t, then who will, sweetie?” – Marilyn Monroe

“To all the girls who think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero. You’re the beautiful one. It’s society who’s ugly.” – Marilyn Monroe

 “Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.” – Marilyn Monroe

“She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s sad.” – Marilyn Monroe

“I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.” – Marilyn Monroe

 “It’s better to be unhappy alone, then to be unhappy with someone else.” – Marilyn Monroe

 “They think I’m crazy, but trust me… I’m 100% there.” – Marilyn Monroe

“I think there’s two things in human beings… that they want to be alone, but they also want to be together.” – Marilyn Monroe

 “A smile is the best makeup a girl can wear.” – Marilyn Monroe

 “I’m the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream.” – Marilyn Monroe

“Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.” – Marilyn Monroe

“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.” – Marilyn Monroe

“A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.” – Marilyn Monroe

 “Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.” – Marilyn Monroe

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

“Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I’ve experienced them both.” – Marilyn Monroe

“Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.” – Marilyn Monroe

 “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.” – Marilyn Monroe

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“I don’t forgive people because I’m weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.”

“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”

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

“A girl doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her.”

“Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.”

“A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.”

“Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.”

“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.”

“I don’t stop when I’m tired. I only stop when I’m done.”

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

“A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.”

“When you’re young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you’re laughing again.”

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“Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.”

“You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.”

“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.”

“I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else.”

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

“I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.”

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

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

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

“This life is what you make it. No matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends – they’ll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything – they’re your true best friends. Don’t let go of them.”

“I don’t look at myself as a commodity, but I’m sure a lot of people have.”

“I only know I want to be wonderful.”

“Always, always, always believe in yourself. Because if you don’t then who will, sweetie?”

“I learned to walk as a baby and I haven’t had a lesson since.”

“It’s far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.”

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”

“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.”

“Keep smiling because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.”

“We are all stars but we must learn how to shine.”

“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 I am a star, the people made me a star.”

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

“I think that love and work are the only things that really happen to us.”

“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.”

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

“I’m pretty but not beautiful. I sin but I’m not the devil. I’m good but I’m not an angel.”

“Always be yourself. Retain individuality; listen to the truest part of yourself.”

“To all the girls that think you’re fat – because you’re not a size zero you’re the beautiful one. It’s society who’s ugly.”

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

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

“Sweetie, if you’re going to be two-faced, at least make one of them pretty.”

“Be real, be yourself, be unique, be true, be honest, be humble, be happy…”

“I’d like to show that I can get publicity without using my ass or getting fired from a picture.”

“I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!”

“Your clothes should be tight enough to show you’re a woman but loose enough to show you’re a lady.”

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

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

“If you can’t handle me at my worst you don’t deserve me at my best.”

“There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.”

“Everyone’s a star and deserves the right to twinkle.”

“I want to do the best that I can do in that moment, when the camera starts, until it stops.”

“I think there’s two things in human beings… that they want to be alone, but they also want to be together.”

“I dress for men. A woman looks at your clothes critically. A man appreciates them.”

“When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I’m already better than them anyway.”

“The way you carry yourself is influenced by the way you feel inside. You must feel attractive to be attractive.”

“She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important.”

“I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.”

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”

“I don’t mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden.”

“I restore myself when I’m alone.”

“I’m selfish, impatient, and insecure. I make mistakes. I am out of control and at times, hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you don’t deserve me at my best.”

“Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.”

“I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.”

“I’ve spent most of my life running away from myself.”

“Fear is stupid, so are regrets.”

“First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.”

“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”

“Frankly, I’ve never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all.”

 “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“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.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“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.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

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

― Marilyn Monroe

“It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“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.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know ” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.” 

― Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn

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

― Marilyn Monroe

“Who said nights were for sleep?” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

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

― Marilyn Monroe

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

― Marilyn Monroe

“When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. 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.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“Friendship is the bestiest thing that comes to life . Friends will always be there for you don't worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don't never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person .” 

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

― Marilyn Monroe

“Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, somg go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone. 

...they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' 

they hurt the ones closest to their hearts, 

and we let the most foolish things tear us apart” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“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.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“Die Liebe und die Arbeit sind die beiden einzigen wahren Dinge in unserem Leben. Sie gehören zusammen, sonst ist es schief. Die Arbeit ist selbst eine Form der Liebe. 

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.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“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.” 

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“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. ” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“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.” 

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“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.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. 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.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“Always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, Sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could 

love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.” 

― Marilyn Monroe

“Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.”
― Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

“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.”
― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hair-do. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.”
― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“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.”
― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“just because you fail once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything. keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself because if you don't, then who will? so keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”
― Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words

“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”
― Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn

“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.” 

― Marilyn Monroe