Top 461 Quotes & Sayings by Marilyn Monroe - Page 8

They will only care when you're gone.

You're the beautiful one. It's society that's ugly.

In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.

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

I am good, but not an angel.

Everyone’s childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand. By this I don’t know if I’m just giving up with this conclusion or resigning myself — or maybe for the first time connecting with reality. How do we know the pain or another’s earlier years, let alone all that he drags with him since along the way at best a lot of leeway is needed for the other — yet how much is unhealthy for one to bear. I think to love bravely is the best and accept — as much as one can bear.

It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment.

The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.

Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.

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

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

it is better to be happy alone than to be miserable with someone else

There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.

Do not worry, and worry.

Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.

It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through &amp past the falls.

Nights are not just for sleep.

Just because you've failed once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything.

A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don't put into it!

I learned to walk when I was ten months old and I've been walking this way ever since.

People always ask me if I believe diamonds are a girl's best friend. Frankly, I don't.

But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.

Acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.

When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

I think every human being knows how to hate. Because if they didn't know how to hate how to hate they wouldn't know how to love.

Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that' But you do want to stay intact-intact and on two feet.

People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person.

I love a natural look in pictures. I like people with a feeling one way or another - it shows an inner life. I like to see that there’s something going on inside them.

I think I made his back feel better.

For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.

I've never liked the name Marilyn. I've often wished that I had held out that day for Jean Monroe. But I guess it's too late to do anything about it now.

My heart belongs to daddy.

I want to be an artist, not an erotic freak. I don’t want to be sold to the public as a celluloid aphrodisiac.

I was never happy as a child, so it wasn't something I took for granted.i did'nt grow up as an average, american child. An average child grows up with an expectation of being happy.

As long as I can remember, I've always loved people.

It stirs up envy, fame does.

This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping the child to them, they start punishing the child. Like you don't dare get a cold. How dare you get a cold! I mean, the executives can get colds and stay home forever and phone it in, but how dare you, the actor, get a cold or a virus. You know, no one feels worse than the one who's sick. I sometimes wish, gee, I wish they had to act a comedy with a temperature and a virus infection.

I have too much imagination to be a housewife

(about her teen years) My admirers all said the same thing in different ways. It was my fault, their wanting to kiss and hug me.

Ever since I became a movie star,I've been really weird.