Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer. She became a major sex symbol in the 1950s and was known for her comedic roles in films such as Some Like It Hot and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She is remembered as an iconic figure of American popular culture, and her untimely death at age 36 has been the subject of much speculation. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Marilyn Monroe on beauty, life, age.
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. — Marilyn Monroe
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left. — Marilyn Monroe
If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty. — Marilyn Monroe
Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside". — Marilyn Monroe
I'm pretty, but not beautiful.
I sin, but I'm not the devil.
I'm good, but I'm not an angel. — Marilyn Monroe
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
I feel that beauty and femininity are ageless — Marilyn Monroe
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. — Marilyn Monroe
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. — Marilyn Monroe
all girls are beautiful in their own way — Marilyn Monroe
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Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Life
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. — Marilyn Monroe
That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop. — Marilyn Monroe
You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. — Marilyn Monroe
Its better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
I don't stop when I'm tired. I only stop when I'm done. — Marilyn Monroe
Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. — Marilyn Monroe
This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. — Marilyn Monroe
Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world.
Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right. — Marilyn Monroe
I believe that everything happens for a reason. — Marilyn Monroe
Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes. — Marilyn Monroe
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. — Marilyn Monroe
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Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Love
Wise girls kiss but never love,
Listen but never believe,
And leave befor they are left. — Marilyn Monroe
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead. — Marilyn Monroe
Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you. — Marilyn Monroe
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. — Marilyn Monroe
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. — Marilyn Monroe
I'm sin, but I'm not the devil. — Marilyn Monroe
I do sin, but I am not the devil. — Marilyn Monroe
Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had. — Marilyn Monroe
A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night. — Marilyn Monroe
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. — Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Happiness
She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know — Marilyn Monroe
Happiness is not in money, but in shopping. — Marilyn Monroe
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 — Marilyn Monroe
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship. — Marilyn Monroe
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. — Marilyn Monroe
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. — Marilyn Monroe
I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. — Marilyn Monroe
You never know what life is like, until you have lived it. — Marilyn Monroe
In spite of everything life is not without hope. — Marilyn Monroe
I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy. — Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Money
When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. — Marilyn Monroe
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. — Marilyn Monroe
I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me. — Marilyn Monroe
I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful. — Marilyn Monroe
The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy. — Marilyn Monroe
Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money. — Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Feminine
We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. — Marilyn Monroe
The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine. — Marilyn Monroe
...I've found out it's fun to go shopping. It's such a feminine thing to do. — Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe Quotes About People
I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes. — Marilyn Monroe
As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions. — Marilyn Monroe
The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home. — Marilyn Monroe
It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing. — Marilyn Monroe
You're always running into people's unconscious. — Marilyn Monroe
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. — Marilyn Monroe
I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus. — Marilyn Monroe
Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. — Marilyn Monroe
I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people. — Marilyn Monroe
Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament. — Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Girl
A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none. — Marilyn Monroe
A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb. — Marilyn Monroe
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world. — Marilyn Monroe
A girl does not need anyone who does not need her. — Marilyn Monroe
If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything. — Marilyn Monroe
A smart girl leaves before she is left. — Marilyn Monroe
No girl should ever forget that she doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her. — Marilyn Monroe
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? — Marilyn Monroe
Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help? — Marilyn Monroe
There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls. — Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe Quotes About World
I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it. — Marilyn Monroe
What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. — Marilyn Monroe
It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all. — Marilyn Monroe
Sisters make the best friends in the world. — Marilyn Monroe
The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down. — Marilyn Monroe
I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away. — Marilyn Monroe
A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world. — Marilyn Monroe
When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world. — Marilyn Monroe
Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world. — Marilyn Monroe
I want the world to see my body. — Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Feel
A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever. — Marilyn Monroe
I like to feel blonde all over. — Marilyn Monroe
Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection. — Marilyn Monroe
Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence. — Marilyn Monroe
One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel. — Marilyn Monroe
With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up. — Marilyn Monroe
I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise. — Marilyn Monroe
I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself. — Marilyn Monroe
I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me. — Marilyn Monroe
A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings. — Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe Famous Quotes And Sayings
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. — Marilyn Monroe
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. — Marilyn Monroe
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead. — Marilyn Monroe
If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty. — Marilyn Monroe
I'm sin, but I'm not the devil. — Marilyn Monroe
If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything. — Marilyn Monroe
You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. — Marilyn Monroe
Fear is stupid. So are regrets. — Marilyn Monroe
A smart girl leaves before she is left. — Marilyn Monroe
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up. — Marilyn Monroe
I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made. — Marilyn Monroe
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 — Marilyn Monroe
No girl should ever forget that she doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her. — Marilyn Monroe
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. — Marilyn Monroe
If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything. — Marilyn Monroe
It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on. — Marilyn Monroe
If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best. — Marilyn Monroe
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. — Marilyn Monroe
Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered. — Marilyn Monroe
I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time. — Marilyn Monroe
Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will?? — Marilyn Monroe
A career is born in public - talent in privacy. — Marilyn Monroe
As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together. — Marilyn Monroe
Wouldnt it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt... and not get emotionally involved? — Marilyn Monroe
When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again. — Marilyn Monroe
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream. — Marilyn Monroe
President Kennedy is very democratic and very penetrating. — Marilyn Monroe
Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage. — Marilyn Monroe
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. — Marilyn Monroe
If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race. — Marilyn Monroe
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin? — Marilyn Monroe
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them. — Marilyn Monroe
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. — Marilyn Monroe
I have been on a calendar, but never on time. — Marilyn Monroe
What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course. — Marilyn Monroe
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. — Marilyn Monroe
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. — Marilyn Monroe
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers! — Marilyn Monroe
I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep. — Marilyn Monroe
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. — Marilyn Monroe
A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you. — Marilyn Monroe
At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox. — Marilyn Monroe
Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow. — Marilyn Monroe
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. — Marilyn Monroe
I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. — Marilyn Monroe
Life Lessons by Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe taught us to never give up on our dreams, no matter how difficult they may seem. She persevered through many hardships and ultimately achieved great success.
She also showed us the importance of self-confidence and self-love. She embraced her own unique beauty and used it to her advantage.
Lastly, Marilyn Monroe taught us to never take life too seriously. She had a great sense of humor and always found joy in the little things in life.
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