Famous Quotes

Quotes by Marilyn Monroe

• 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.
• 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.
• A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.
• A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.
• A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.
• An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
• An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
• 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.
• Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
• Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'
• Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.
• Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
• Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
• Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
• Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
• For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.
• Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
• Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.
• Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
• I am alone I am always alone no matter what.
• I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
• 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.
• 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.
• I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.
• I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
• I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
• 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.
• I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
• 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 love a natural look in pictures.
• I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.
• I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
• I read poetry to save time.