Marilyn Monroe Quotes

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

“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife…. I guess I am a fantasy.”

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”

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

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

“A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.”

“Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??”

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

“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.”

“Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I read poetry to save time.”

“When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.”

“Everyone's childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.”

“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 often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.”

“she was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad”

“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.”

“Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.”

“The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.”

“Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.”

“Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.”

“Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.”

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

“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.”

“You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.”

“There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos.”

“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.”

“It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“They will only care when you're gone.”

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

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

“Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.”

“all girls are beautiful in their own way”

“A smile is the best makeup a girl could wear”

“try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is.”

“Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.”

“I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch.”

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

“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.”

“There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.”

“open your eyes^_^
and look within….
are you satisfied with the life,
…….. U are liVing?????????”

“Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.”

“In spite of everything life is not without hope.”

“Fear is stupid, so are regrets.”

“Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever.”