Marilyn Quotes

Sell your soul to yourself. You'll make more money.

Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.

We are our own wicked gods with little 'g's' and big dicks, sadistic and constantly inflicting a slow demise.

If you act like a rock star, you will be treated like one

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

I read poetry to save time.

Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.

If your reality is the same as my reality, then you're in trouble.

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own

You're who you think you are, even if you never admit it to yourself or to anyone else. You may be in the worst position to judge, but you're in the best position to know.

I wish you would grow to the understanding that you choose heterosexuality.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.

Know how to drive safely when it's raining or when it's snowing. The two conditions are different.

I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things.

A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.

If you never heard opportunity knock, maybe you're never at home.

I hear you're looking for a sexy blonde to play with the Marx Brothers. Would you like to see me. I'm blonde and I'm sexy.

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.

I speak in reality. I don't try to hide anything from anybody, and that's the most dangerous thing about our music that parents are so afraid of.

I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.

One of the few articles of clothing that a man won't try to remove from a woman is an apron.

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.

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?

Giggle potential is everywhere; we just need to slow down long enough to see it.

Dear God, if you were alive, you know we'd kill you.

I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.

Next to my husband and along with Marlon Brando, Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.

Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.

[When asked if the voice is an instrument:] Yes, of course. Some are violins, some are fountain pens and some are stethoscopes. And others are just washboards.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.

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

Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?

Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.

Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

When you're in a good mood, bring up the past. When you're in a bad mood, stick to the present. And when you're not feeling emotional at all, it's time to talk about the future.

Our biggest failure is our failure to see patterns.

I traveled into the future to get back in time.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Jesus came for the least, the lost, and the last.

I did vote Obama. But I've never believed in the authenticity of the two-party system.

Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them

Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?

A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself, what's the good of being anything at all?