Famous Quotes

Quotes by Marilyn Monroe

• I restore myself when I'm alone.
• I think I have always had a little humor.
• I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
• I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
• I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
• I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
• I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
• I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.
• I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
• I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
• 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.
• If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.
• If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
• 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.
• Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
• It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
• 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.
• Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
• Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
• Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
• 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.
• My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.
• One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.
• Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?
• Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
• Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.
• Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.
• Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
• 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.
• Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.
• Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
• The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.
• 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.
• The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
• The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'
• There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.
• 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.
• What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?