Marilyn Monroe Quotes
"A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Sex, Hate, Symbol)
"A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Career, Night)
"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
(Related: Public, World)
"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 experience, but that's not where I live."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Experience, Fame, Will)
"First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: First, Trying)
"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Kiss, Soul, Hollywood)
"Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Husbands, Lovers, Wives)
"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
(Related: Change)
"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."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Freedom, Rights, Loss, Minority, Stars)
"I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Money, Want)
"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Women)
"I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Jokes, Mind, Want)
"I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Life, Love, Wife)
"Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Being)
"I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Fantasy, Housewife)
"I restore myself when I'm alone."
- Marilyn Monroe
"I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Woman)
"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Living, Man, Mind, Woman, World)
"I've never dropped anyone I believed in."
- Marilyn Monroe
"If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Rules)
"If I'm a star, then the people made me a star."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: People)
"It's all make believe, isn't it?"
- Marilyn Monroe
"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far."
- Marilyn Monroe
"It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Nothing)
"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Nothing)
"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
(Related: Feeling, Talk)
"Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Men, Respect)
"I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Talent, Feelings, Want)
"Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Sex, Being, Hurt, Symbol)
"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."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Love, Marriage, Man)
"An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Money, Machine)
"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Time)
"Dogs never bite me. Just humans."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Dogs)
"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Body)
"What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Bed)
"To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation."
- Marilyn Monroe
"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."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Mistake, Name)
"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
(Related: Children, Want)
"Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Nature, Sex)
"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
(Related: Girls, Pretty)
"My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Work)
"The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Trouble, Worry)