Marilyn Monroe Quotes

A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don't put into it!

a struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine.

If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

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.

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...

The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.

There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

I like to feel blonde all over.

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

Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart.

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.

You must feel attractive to be attractive.

Marriage is the dark side of the honeymoon

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so.

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

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.

The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.

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 think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

In spite of everything life is not without hope.

Remember now, Cheers, no tears.

I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

There are no women who do not like perfume, there are women who have not found their scent.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

I love a natural look in pictures.

The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.

Enjoy the fact that you're a woman and men will enjoy it too.

Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?

I'm going to be a great movie star some day.

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.

I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.

Diamonds are a girls bestfriend

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

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.

Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one.

Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.

There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.

It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment.