Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Change is actually what you need to avoid.Assimilation is much more joyful than conformity,when you try to change you try to fit yourself to other people's standards.You deny your own values and opinions, and you adopt a personality that isn't you.And most likely you will be more uncomfortable even though it may seem like you fit in more, i would suggest you not to change. Just be yourself, the way you are.Because that's what makes you different and distinguishable and unique from every other individual.

~ Marilyn Monroe

Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they'll say, 'Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?' And they'll start tailing me. And I don't mind.

~ Marilyn Monroe

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

~ Marilyn Monroe

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

~ 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

I think I have always had a little humor.

~ 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

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

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

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I'll leave those things to the men.

~ 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

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

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

~ Marilyn Monroe

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

~ Marilyn Monroe

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

~ Marilyn Monroe

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.

~ Marilyn Monroe

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

~ Marilyn Monroe

I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm 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.

~ Marilyn Monroe

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

~ 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

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.

~ Marilyn Monroe

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

~ Marilyn Monroe

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

~ 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

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing 'Happy Birthday,' like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!'

~ Marilyn Monroe

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

~ Marilyn Monroe

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

~ 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

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

~ Marilyn Monroe

The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.

~ 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

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.

~ Marilyn Monroe

I read poetry to save time.

~ Marilyn Monroe

My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.

~ Marilyn Monroe

I restore myself when I'm alone.

~ Marilyn Monroe

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

~ Marilyn Monroe

I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

~ Marilyn Monroe

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.

~ Marilyn Monroe