Marilyn Monroe Quotes

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.

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

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

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

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

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. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

Who said nights were for sleep?

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

All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

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.

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere.

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together

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

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.

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

Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

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

I restore myself when I'm alone.

I just want to be wonderful.

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

Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

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

I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.

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

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

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 being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.

I've been on a calendar, but never on time.

I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like martians in War of the Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.

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

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

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

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone. ...they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' they hurt the ones closest to their hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart

Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady

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

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.

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

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

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.

He had a new girl, and I told him she looked like Marilyn Monroe. He smiled because he thought I meant she was beautiful, and I smiled because I meant she looked like a corpse.

Friendship is the bestiest thing that comes to life . Friends will always be there for you don't worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don't never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person .

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.

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

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

It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

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 read poetry to save time.

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.

Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.

If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.

A girl doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her

This life is what you make it. Not 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, somg go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.

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

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

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.

A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is very tired, hurt and bewildered.

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.

So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Die Liebe und die Arbeit sind die beiden einzigen wahren Dinge in unserem Leben. Sie gehören zusammen, sonst ist es schief. Die Arbeit ist selbst eine Form der Liebe. 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.

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

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.

Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.

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.

I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.