Marilyn Monroe citations célèbres
Citations sur les filles de Marilyn Monroe
“Tout ce qu'une fille désire vraiment, c'est qu'un gars lui prouve qu'ils ne sont pas tous pareils.”
Citations attribuées
Citations sur les hommes et les garçons de Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe Citations
Citations attribuées
Citations attribuées
Marilyn Monroe: Citations en anglais
Variante: 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.
“A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.”
Attributed to Monroe in self-help books and on social media, this quotation is of unknown origin and date.
Misattributed
Last words to Peter Lawford (5 August 1962), as quoted at Spiegel Online http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,475898,00.html
Variante: Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you're a nice guy.
“I know I will never be happy but I know I can be gay!”
As quoted in a letter to her psychiatrist, Dr. Greenson, in 1961. Fragments, by Stanley Buchthal and Bernard Comment (2010)
“It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”
As quoted in TIME magazine when "asked if she really had nothing on in the photograph [for a 1949 calendar]" ("Something for the Boys." Time 60, no. 6 (August 11, 1952): 90)
Variante: 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.”
Variante: I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
Source: Marilyn

“If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere.”
Variante: If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
As quoted in The Films of Barbra Streisand (2001) by Christopher Nickens and Karen Swenson
Variante: 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 don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.”
As quoted in Her Inspiration : Secrets to Help You Work Smart, Be Successful, and Have Fun (2008) by Mina Parker
Variante: I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
Contexte: 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... If fame goes by, 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.
Her last taped interview, with Richard Meryman, published in LIFE magazine a few days before her death. (3 August 1962); quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) <!-- p. 42 -->
“Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.”
Variante: 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.”
As quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 40
Variante: I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.
“The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.”
Handwritten note responding to a question about posing nude, as quoted in International Herald Tribune (5 October 1984)
Variante: The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
“What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course”
Variante: What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
As quoted in Marilyn Monroe : In Her Own Words (1983), edited by Roger Taylor
Variante: 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.
Variante: I used to think as I looked at 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.