Marilyn Monroe Quotes

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

“I think I have always had a little humor.”

“The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.”

“a struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine.”

“Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.”

“My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!”

“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.”

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

“I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one...”

“When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.”

“Couldn't we end this interview with what I really want to say? That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship -- everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. If we could end this article saying just that, we'd get down to what we should all be talking about. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.”

“If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell shouldn't schedule a meeting with me before 10am.”

“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.”

“Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.”

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

“A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.”

“I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.”

“It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment.”

“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.”

“A smart girl leaves before she is left.”

“The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.”

“I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else.”

“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.”

“(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.”

“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.”