Marilyn Monroe Quotes

I believe that everything happens for a reason.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

Wouldnt it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt... and not get emotionally involved?

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

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

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.

Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings.

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

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

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire.

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.

I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.

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.

If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.

Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right.

I've never dropped anyone I believed in.

One of the things I like best about men is they're a little vulnerable.

Happiness never becomes a habit.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one...

I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.

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

Within crisis, are the seeds of opportunity.

The truth can only be recalled, never invented.

I love to do the things the censors won't pass.

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.

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.

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

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

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

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

I feel that beauty and femininity are ageless

President Kennedy is very democratic and very penetrating.

When you have only a single dream it is more than likely to come true - because you keep working toward it without getting mixed up.

Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

I'm good, but I'm not an angel.

I always felt I was a nobody, and the only way for me to be somebody was to be - well, somebody else. Which is probably why I wanted to act.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

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

All little girls should be told they are pretty.

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.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

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.

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