Marilyn Monroe Quotes

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

“I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.”

“If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.”

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

“The happiest time of my life is now.”

“I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.”

“An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.”

“Sometimes I think I was more in control of my life years and years ago, and yet one should make progress; one should learn more every year and become…well, if not happier, then calmer and more able to handle your problems. But I’m not. Sometimes I just seem to make more problems for myself. I do. It makes me feel I haven’t grown up as much as I should have by now.”

“We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.”

“I like to feel blonde all over.”

“I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.”

“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”

“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.”

“When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.”

“Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.”

“A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.”

“When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health.”

“I don't stop when I'm tired. I only stop when I'm done.”

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

“Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.”

“People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.”

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