Popular Marilyn Monroe's Quotes And Sayings

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions.

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

Nothing happens without a reason.

It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.

Couldn't we end this interview with what I really want to say? That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship -- everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. If we could end this article saying just that, we'd get down to what we should all be talking about. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.

I learned also that the best way to keep out of trouble was by never complaining or asking for anything.

If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.

Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings.

Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido!

There is a future, and I can't wait to get to it

I wanna be loved by you, just you, nobody else but you.

I'm good, but I'm not an angel.

One of the things I like best about men is they're a little vulnerable.

Happiness never becomes a habit.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

I sleep in the nude but I pull the sheets up.

President Kennedy is very democratic and very penetrating.

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.

all girls are beautiful in their own way

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

I read poetry to save time.

Remember now, Cheers, no tears.

When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.

Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.

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

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.

This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.

We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

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.

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

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

Enjoy the fact that you're a woman and men will enjoy it too.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

I keep my undies in the icebox!

Love is something you cant invent, no matter how much you want to.

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

That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

The happiest time of my life is now.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

I believe in everything - a little bit.

In spite of everything life is not without hope.

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

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

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

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

A smart girl leaves before she is left.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

You know, most people really don't know me.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

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

By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition

I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.

Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.

I love to do the things the censors won't pass.

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 think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

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.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire.

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

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

The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex.... Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges.

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

Well, whatever I am, I am the blonde!

If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.

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'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful.

When you have only a single dream it is more than likely to come true - because you keep working toward it without getting mixed up.

Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

It was my fans who made me a star.

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.

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.

Wouldnt it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt... and not get emotionally involved?

In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself, what's the good of being anything at all?

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

The truth can only be recalled, never invented.

I believe that everything happens for a reason.

You've got a way with words. You got me smiling even when it hurts. There's no way to measure what your love is worth, I can't believe the way you get through to me. ~ Shania Twain If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything

It's better to be angry without paying for gold than to be angry after you paid.

I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.

Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever.

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

I am good, but not an angel.

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.

I think cheesecake helps call attention to you. Then you can follow through and prove yourself.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.

I have never liked sex. I do not think I ever will. It just seems the opposite of love.