Famous Quotes

Quotes by Marilyn Monroe

• 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.
• 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.