Top 262 Monroe Quotes & Sayings

When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.

My favorite actress is Marilyn Monroe.

Bill Monroe is not singing about life in America. He's singing about life in Kentucky and Tennessee. And yet it's had this tremendous impact, not just in America but in the world. Why is Bill Monroe's hyper-regional music so universal? We can be so different and yet still share a tremendous amount.

I'm a huge fan of Clyde Frazier and Earl Monroe.

I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe.

Everybody who's played Marilyn Monroe before has gone down in flames. It's impossible to capture Marilyn Monroe.

I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.

I loved all the other movies, and I loved all the other movie stars, but I was very aware of the fact that I didn't look like Marilyn Monroe - although I still wanted to be Marilyn Monroe. Then Josephine Baker popped up, and she wasn't the maid - she was the star of the show. To me, it was mind-blowing.

What the [James] Monroe Doctrine stated, in effect, is that the US should dominate the hemisphere.

Imagine my name being taken in the same breath as Marilyn Monroe and Madonna.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe.

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.

One of my favorite credits is to say that I worked behind Marilyn Monroe, and I love saying that. She was phenomenal.

Marilyn Monroe to me is the epitome of glamour, and always has been since I was a kid.

Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood's Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town. I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.

Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin.

There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like an author creates a character. She understood photography, and she also understood what makes a great photograph. She related to it as if she were giving a performance. She gave more to the still camera than any actress-any woman- I've ever photographed.

I'm kind of fixated with old Hollywood, like Marilyn Monroe.

Marilyn Monroe was supposedly a size 16, which is probably why I love her style; it suits me better.

If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.

I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.

I wrote a novel called "Blonde," which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the material as if it were myth - that Marilyn Monroe is like this mythical figure in our culture.

I consider Monroe a pretty minor president. In spite of the Monroe Doctrine. That's the only important thing he ever did more or less on his own, when you really get down to it.

By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker.

If you look at US internal documents, they explain very clearly what the threat of Cuba was. So, back in the early 1960s the State Department described the threat of Cuba as Castro's successful defiance of US policy, going back to the Monroe Doctrine. The Monroe Doctrine established the US claim to dominate the Western hemisphere and Castro was successfully defying that. That's not tolerable. It is like somebody saying "let's have democracy in Greece," and we just can't tolerate that so we have to destroy the threat at its roots.

Do you remember when Marilyn Monroe died? Everybody stopped work, and you could see all that day the same expressions on their faces, the same thought: ‘How can a girl with success, fame, youth, money, beauty . . . how could she kill herself?’ Nobody could understand it because those are the things that everybody wants, and they can’t believe that life wasn’t important to Marilyn Monroe, or that her life was elsewhere

People like Marilyn Monroe, Cindy Crawford and Pamela Anderson have done Playboy, and look at their careers!

I love Greg Monroe.

I'd like to be Marilyn Monroe for a day.

I always loved the style of Jean Seberg, Jane Birkin and Marilyn Monroe.

I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.

I'm a big believer that Marilyn Monroe was killed.

Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.

If you were married to Marilyn Monroe, you'd cheat with some ugly girl.

I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe and find my own Clark Gable.

I love songs, Patty Larkin, Sharon Stone, Mae West, and Marilyn Monroe.

I love Don Williams records. And old Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe.

Even being close to L.A., I was always inspired by old movies and Marilyn Monroe and the glamour of Hollywood.

I admire so many women, it's hard to choose, but I've always loved Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, and Mia Farrow.

My belief also is that Marilyn Monroe passed away long before she should have left us.

It's a toss-up whether the scenery or the adornment of Marilyn Monroe is the feature of greater attraction in River of No Return. The mountainous scenery is spectacular, but so in her own way is Miss Monroe.

Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure, depressive, passive-aggressive, and infuriatingly obstructionist in her career habits. Madonna is manic, perfectionist, workaholic. Monroe abused alcohol and drugs, while Madonna shuns them. Monroe had a tentative, melting, dreamy solipsism; Madonna has Judy Holliday's wisecracking smart mouth and Joan Crawford's steel will and bossy, circus master managerial competence.

I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the material as if it were myth - that Marilyn Monroe is like this mythical figure in our culture.

I was never into the Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and stuff like that.

When I was in bed with Marilyn Monroe, I was never sure before, during or after, where her mind was.

For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly.

Well, Peter Rowan and I had plans to form a band when he left Bill Monroe. I always thought it was going to be a bluegrass band, but I guess when Peter left Bill Monroe he had had enough of bluegrass. He had written some songs and of course the Beatles were a big influence back then. So, we decided to something different and it ended up being that.

I'm not reinventing the wheel here. I'm not Chuck Berry or Bill Monroe. Guys like that are from outer space.

I've had a passion to play Marilyn Monroe for a really long time.

You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.

By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

When I was 12 years old I discovered Bill Monroe and my dad got me a mandolin.

The United States was born with an imperialist impulse. There has been a long confrontation between Monroe and Bolivar... It is necessary that the Monroe Doctrine be broken.

Anna [Nicole Smith ] in a lot of ways always thought she was going to die young and she said that she thought she was going to be like Marilyn Monroe. Initially, Anna had always wanted to be buried near Marilyn Monroe.

My dad treated Marilyn Monroe more like his daughter than me.

Marilyn [Monroe] was really mistreated.

You're no Elvis Presley, I'm no Marilyn Monroe, but I do think you're sexy, just thought I'd tell you so.