Marilyn Monroe Quotes (173 Quotes)

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.

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.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

I've fallen in love with Brooklyn. I'm going to buy a little house in Brooklyn and live there. I'll go to the coast only when I have to make a picture.

At the beach, Sugar notices that although Daphne is a big girl with large shoulders and arms, she's also flat 'You're so flat-chested. Clothes hang better on you than they do on me.'

She Sadie Thompson was a girl who knew how to be gay even when she was sad. And that's important--you know

No one ever called me pretty when I was a little girl

I've given pure sex appeal very little thought. If I had to think about it, I'm sure it would frighten me.

I never wear stockings or underclothes because I think it is important to breathe freely.

A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.

Everyone's just laughing at me. I hate it. Big breasts, big ass, big deal, Can't I be anything else Gee, how long can you be sexy

Well behaved women rarely make history.

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. I did sort of think, you know, marriage did that. You see, I was brought up differently from the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy - that's it, successful, happy, and on time.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

Suicide is a person's privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime. It's your right if you want to, though it doesn't get you anywhere.

I feel as though it's all happening to someone right next to me. I'm close, I can feel it, I can hear it, but it isn't really me.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

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.

I'm going to be a great movie star some day.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

I didn't pay much attention to the whistles and whoops, in fact, I didn't quite hear them. I was full of a strange feeling, as if I were two people. One of them was Norma Jeane from the orphanage who belonged to nobody the other was someone whose name I didn't know. But I knew where she belonged she belonged to the ocean and the sky and the whole world.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am 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.

Wouldn't it be nice to be like men, just getting notches in your belt, having affairs with the most atttractive men . . . and not getting emotionally involved.

In the margins of the 1962 script for Something's Got to Give, ... Some changes should be made but not like this -- either they have to trust me to play the scenes with heart, or we are lost. This writer maybe (sic) good but what has been written new pages will inhibit me.

It's all make believe, isn't it?

I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me.

It isn't necessary to use your voice in any special way (to sound sexy). If you think something sexy the voice just naturally goes along.

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

If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle.

Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.

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.

It stirs up envy, fame does.

People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.

Of the nude pictures Sure I posed. I needed the money.

Some of those bastards in Hollywood wanted me to drop Arthur. Said it would ruin my career. They're born cowards and want you to be like them. One reason I want to see Kennedy win is that Nixon's associated with that whole scene.

I never intentionally mean to hurt anyone, but you can't be too nice to people you work with, else they will trample you to death.

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

was a small-town girl.

I think if other girls know how bad I was when I started they'll be encouraged. I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.

Crawford, who won an Academy Award for Mildred Pierce , had a gigantic orgasm and shrieked like a maniac ... another round.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe' And I'd answer, 'Everything, everything,' and I'd walk slowly and turn my head slowly as if I were a queen.

It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.