Marilyn Monroe Quotes (173 Quotes)

Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.

I always sleep with my mouth open. I know because it's open when I wake up.

Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you're a nice guy.

I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.

To a reporter Please don't make me a joke.

I always felt insecure and in the way but most of all I felt scared. I guess I wanted love more than anything else in the world.

I have never been very good at being a member of any group - more than a group of two, that is.

You would think all other women kept their bodies in vaults.

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.

My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve.

I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden. We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

I wanna guy I can look up to . . . I just gotta feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me, aside from all that loving stuff.

I have never quite understood this sex symbol business, but if Im going to be a symbol of something, Id rather have it sex than some of the other things theyve got symbols for.

They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I'm just a girl who wishes for the world.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

They think I'm crazy, ... But trust me, I'm 100 percent there.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

If I play a stupid girl, and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent.

I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. 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

I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.