Marilyn Quotes

A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he's caused you.

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.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate.

At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.

I fall in love very easily.

Try square dancing-at least long enough to no longer feel silly and begin to have fun.

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

God wants His people well, but it is up to us to make the decision to walk in health.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.

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

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

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

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

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.

all girls are beautiful in their own way

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

...there are days when I feel I can do anything and days when I feel I can do nothing. But fortunately for those around me, neither sort occurs very often.

God is just a statistics.

Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.

As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that all they want in the end is your death.

The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.

Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.

If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.

Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.

The term middle-aged, invented by Descartes, comes from the Latin, medeus, meaning 'not really old' and ageis, meaning 'if you look at it in a certain way.

I was never afriad of what was under the bed. I wanted it but never got it. I became it.

Justice by any and all means necessary.

To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily.

What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior

I really had to act; 'cause I didn't have any lines.

Transformation is a journey without a final destination.

Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?

Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.

We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.

There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

You go beyond 'I want it. I want to have it' - to - 'I'm going to have it

I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted.

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.

Sisters make the best friends in the world.

It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.

I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.