Marilyn Monroe Quotes

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

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

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

If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

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

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

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

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

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

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

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

Always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will?

I have been on a calendar, but never on time.

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.

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

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

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

I want to grow old without facelifts.

I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

Against all odds, despite all obstacles, we are going to make it.

A sex symbol becomes a thing.... I just hate to be a thing.

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.

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

It is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

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

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.

A smart girl leaves before she is left.

Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.

Always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will?

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.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

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

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame.

If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

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.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.

I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.

Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things.

I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

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.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.

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

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.

I think I have always had a little humor.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.