Marilyn Monroe famous quotes

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Beautiful #Angel #Devil

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

#Love #Inspirational #Life

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

#Love #Funny #Marriage

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

#Love #Inspirational #Life

Who said nights were for sleep?
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Love #Life #Inspiring

I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspiring #Success #Please

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

#Intuition #Instinct

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

#Fashion #Women #High Heels

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius........'' ''Give a girl the right shoes and she will conquer the world
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Girl #Shoes #Giving

Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.
-- Marilyn Monroe

To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspirational #Beauty #Beautiful

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.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Love #Inspiring #Way

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspiring #Girly #Mind

A smart girl leaves before she is left.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Girl #Smart #Smart Girl

Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Eye #Thinking #Color

A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Marriage #Night #Careers

Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Love #Dog #Hurt

It's all make believe, isn't it?
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Love #Life #Believe

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

#Inspiring #Anniversary #Book

Friends accept you the way you are.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspiring #Way #Accepting

I read poetry to save time.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspiring

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Love #Life #Happiness

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

#Kids #Want #Three

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspiring #Brother #Mirrors

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

#Inspiring #Body #Covered

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

#Inspiring #Way #Female

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

#Funny #Funny Inspirational #Time

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

#Inspiring #Girl #Men

I've never dropped anyone I believed in.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspiring

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Kissing

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Giving Up #Preparation #Acting

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

#Love #Being Alone #Unhappy

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

#Ideas #Survival #Important

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

#Inspiring #What If #Care

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspiring #Broken Heart #Women

I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspiring #Real #People

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

#Inspiring #Memorable #Fantasy

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

#Love #Inspiring #Wife

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Love #Inspirational #Life

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

#Thinking #Weakness #Fame

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspiring #Children #Want

Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Perseverance #Courage #Failure

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspirational #Beauty #Women

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

#Children #Lying #People

Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Thinking #Doe

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Dance #Real #Kissing

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Love #Funny #Life

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Love #Life #Loyal

Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspiring #Able #Having Hope

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

#Beautiful #Believe #Mean

No girl should ever forget that she doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Break Up #Girl #Needs

I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Love #Inspiring #Eye

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

#Trying #Facts #Done

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

#Happiness #Inspiring #Positivity

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

#Hurt #Giving #Envy

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

#Inspiring #Night #Thinking

In spite of everything life is not without hope.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Love #Life #Happiness

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspiring #Veils #Wanted

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

#Dumb #Mind

A girl does not need anyone who does not need her.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Girl #Needs #Doe

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

#Love #Strong #Men

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspiring #Break Up #Fall

Happiness is not in money, but in shopping.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Shopping

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

#Fans #World #Want

I love a natural look in pictures.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Love #Looks #Natural

I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspiring #Strong #Mistake

Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Looks #Remember #Look Up

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

#Inspiring #Thinking #Age

I don't stop when I'm tired. I only stop when I'm done.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Tired #Loving Life #Done

A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where she is flat or straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-36 and inches and ages and numbers, by all the outside things that don’t ever add up to who she is on the inside. And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by the things she can control, by who she is and who she is trying to become. Because as every woman knows, measurements are only statistics... and STATISTICS LIE.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Lying #Numbers #Curves

Enjoy the fact that you're a woman and men will enjoy it too.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Men #Facts #Men And Women

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspiring #Baby #Lessons

It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Smart #Play #Dumb

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspiring #Party #Idols

Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?
-- Marilyn Monroe

There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Clothes #Looks

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

#Real #Nice #People

Friendship is the bestiest thing that comes to life . Friends will always be there for you don't worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don't never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person .
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Friendship #Inspiring #Real

try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Trying #Miserable #Enough

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

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Nature

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.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Strong

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

#Love #Inspirational #Life

I love to do the things the censors won't pass.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Love #Inspiring #Acting

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

#Hate #Believe #I Hate You

Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Heart #Moon #Men

Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspirational #Confidence #Stars

We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Crush #Sex #People

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspirational #Sex #Fun

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspirational #Happiness #Inspiring

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.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Girl #Littles #Should

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Love #Inspirational #Life

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Love #Life #Happiness

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Love #Life #Inspiring

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspiring #Play #Interesting

Dogs never bite me - just humans.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspirational #Dog #Animal

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

#Love #Life #Happiness

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspiring #Trying #Sometimes

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!'
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Girl #Hands #Likes

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Fame

All little girls should be told they are pretty.
-- Marilyn Monroe

#Girl #Children #Littles