Marilyn Quotes

You'll understand when I'm dead.

I'll pretend that I want you for what is on the inside.

I learned also that the best way to keep out of trouble was by never complaining or asking for anything.

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.

They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.

It was my fans who made me a star.

I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.

Sometimes good things the best things coincide fall apart.

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

I don't digest things with my mind.

Creativity has got to start with humanity.

Anything’s possible, almost.

I don't think sun-tanned skin is any more attractive than white skin, or any healthier, for that matter

I never used to bother with exercises. Now I spend at least 10 minutes each morning working out with small weights

In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life.

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.

I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me.

The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy.

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous

Well, whatever I am, I am the blonde!

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

There's no such thing as chance, it's all preordained.Lik e KISMET.

I've fallen in love with Brooklyn. I'm going to buy a little house in Brooklyn and live there. I'll go to the coast only when I have to make a picture.

Acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.

I'm trying to find myself. Sometimes it's not that easy.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?' And I'd answer, 'Everything, everything,' and I'd walk slowly and turn my head slowly as if I were a queen.

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden

After all, all we demanded was a right to twinkle.

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember?

It's better to be angry without paying for gold than to be angry after you paid.

I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

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

You're the beautiful one. It's society that's ugly.

I am good, but not an angel.

I was never happy as a child, so it wasn't something I took for granted.i did'nt grow up as an average, american child. An average child grows up with an expectation of being happy.

In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.

I've never liked the name Marilyn. I've often wished that I had held out that day for Jean Monroe. But I guess it's too late to do anything about it now.

it is better to be happy alone than to be miserable with someone else

(about her teen years) My admirers all said the same thing in different ways. It was my fault, their wanting to kiss and hug me.