Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

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

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.

I read poetry to save time.

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.

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

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.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.

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.

A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.

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.

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.

Next to my husband and along with Marlon Brando, Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.

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.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.

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.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself, what's the good of being anything at all?

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.

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.

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

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

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

all girls are beautiful in their own way

Sisters make the best friends in the world.

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.

I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted.

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

You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.

Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?

There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos.

It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

I don't want to be rich, I just want to be loved.

I believe in everything - a little bit.

You're always running into people's unconscious.

I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.

Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?

Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have.

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.

The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.

I doubt if any doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry.

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