Marilyn Monroe Quotes

149 Quotes to Inspire and Bring Joy for a Fully-lived Life

“It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”

“I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“A girl doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her”

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

“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?”

“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.”

“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 love to do the things the censors won't pass.”

“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend. ”

“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.”

“The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was.”

“Unfortunately, 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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius”

“A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.”

“Say goodbye to Pat, say goodbye to the president, and say goodbye to yourself, because you're a nice guy. … I'll see, I'll see.”

“I know I will never be happy but I know I can be gay!”

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

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

“Who said nights were for sleep?”

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

“If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere.”

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

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

“Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one… I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity.”

“Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.”

“I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.”

“We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.”

“It's all make believe, isn't it?”

“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.”

“The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.”

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

“What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I've been on a calendar, but never on time.”

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

“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”