Top 461 Quotes & Sayings by Marilyn Monroe - Page 5

Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?

Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.

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

I don't stop when I'm tired. I only stop when I'm done.

Beneath the makeup & behind the smile I'm just the girl who wishes for the world. A wise girl kisses, but doesn't love. Listens but dosen't believe. And leaves before she is left. If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything. 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.

The truth can only be recalled, never invented.

President Kennedy is very democratic and very penetrating.

Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??

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

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.

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

I always felt I was a nobody, and the only way for me to be somebody was to be - well, somebody else. Which is probably why I wanted to act.

When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.

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

Joe: You don't want me, Sugar. I'm a liar and a phony. A saxophone player. One of those no-goodniks you keep running away from. Sugar: I know, every time. Joe: Sugar, do yourself a favor. Go back to where the millionaires are, the sweet end of the lollipop, not the cole slaw in the face, the old socks and the squeezed-out tube of toothpaste. Sugar: That's right. Pour it on. Talk me out of it. (She grabs him to kiss him.)

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

Nothing happens without a reason.

Everybody says I can't act. They said the same thing about Elizabeth Taylor. And they were wrong. She was great in A Place in the Sun. I'll never get the right part, anything I really want. My looks are against me. They're too specific.

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

When it gets hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the ice box.

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.

I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.

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

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

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

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

I don't want to be rich, I just want to be loved.

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.

all girls are beautiful in their own way

By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition

The happiest time of my life is now.

Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

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.

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.

You're always running into people's unconscious.

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

Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right.

Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire.

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!

Marriage is the dark side of the honeymoon

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.

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.

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

You must feel attractive to be attractive.

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

Happiness never becomes a habit.

a struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine.

In spite of everything life is not without hope.

Remember now, Cheers, no tears.

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

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

I believe in everything - a little bit.

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.

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

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

The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.

Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.

But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

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

I believe that everything happens for a reason.