Top 461 Quotes & Sayings by Marilyn Monroe - Page 6

Sisters make the best friends in the world.

Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes.

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

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

A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.

Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness ... fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day.

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

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.

My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.

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

Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.

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

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.

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.

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!

Sometimes good things the best things coincide fall apart.

No sex is wrong, if there's love in it.

I'm thirty-six years old. I'm just getting started!

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 usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots

I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me- and that I've made of myself- as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it.

Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy.

Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.

I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.

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

Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine.

Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.

I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted.

I feel that beauty and femininity are ageless

Sometimes I think I was more in control of my life years and years ago, and yet one should make progress; one should learn more every year and become…well, if not happier, then calmer and more able to handle your problems. But I’m not. Sometimes I just seem to make more problems for myself. I do. It makes me feel I haven’t grown up as much as I should have by now.

I think to love bravely is the best and accept - as much as one can bear.

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?

Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?

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.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody - I don't know who or what - maybe myself. I have feelings some days where there are scenes with a lot of responsibility, and I'll wish, 'Gee, if only I had been a cleaning woman.'

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty.

I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.

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

I have always felt comfortable in blue jeans. I have found it interesting, however, that people also whistle at blue jeans. I have to admit that I like mine to fit. There's nothing I hate worse than baggy blue jeans.

I'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful.

There are no women who do not like perfume, there are women who have not found their scent.

Happy Birthday, Mr Presidenttttt

I want to say to the people, if I am a star, the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did.

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 don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one...

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.

I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch.

Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have.

That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.

Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?

Next to my husband and along with Marlon Brando, Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.

Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I’ve been admiring since childhood. I always thought that movie stars were exciting and talented people full of special personality. Meeting one of them at a party I discover usually that he (or she) is colorless and even frightened. I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

I've read all of Shakespeare and practiced a lot of lines. ... I am going to do Juliet first. Don't laugh. What, with what makeup, costume and camera can do, my acting will create a Juliet who is 14, an innocent virgin.

There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos.

I hear you're looking for a sexy blonde to play with the Marx Brothers. Would you like to see me. I'm blonde and I'm sexy.

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

try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is.

It was my fans who made me a star.

I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me, tugging at me, as if they wanted a piece of me. It was always, 'do this, do that,' and not just on the job but off, too. God, I've tried to stay intact, whole.