Marilyn Monroe Quotes

“I feel that beauty and femininity are ageless”

“I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch.”

“When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.”

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

“I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me, tugging at me, as if they wanted a piece of me. It was always, 'do this, do that,' and not just on the job but off, too. God, I've tried to stay intact, whole.”

“When it gets hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the ice box.”

“I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.”

“Friends accept you the way you are.”

“I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.”

“Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I’ve been admiring since childhood. I always thought that movie stars were exciting and talented people full of special personality. Meeting one of them at a party I discover usually that he (or she) is colorless and even frightened. I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.”

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

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

“Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.”

“The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.”

“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”

“Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one.”

“A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.”

“I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.”

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

“The truth can only be recalled, never invented.”

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