Marilyn Monroe Quotes

“It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again. But I believe you’re always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. 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 experienced, but that’s not where I live.”

“The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy.”

“If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.”

“One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.”

“My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50?”

“You can read about yourself but what's important is how you feel about yourself.”

“For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.”

“Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.”

“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.”

“When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.”

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

“A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.”

“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.”

“I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody - I don't know who or what - maybe myself. I have feelings some days where there are scenes with a lot of responsibility, and I'll wish, 'Gee, if only I had been a cleaning woman.'”

“Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that' But you do want to stay intact-intact and on two feet.”

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

“Just because you've failed once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything.”

“Sisters make the best friends in the world.”

“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.”

“Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle.”

“...I've found out it's fun to go shopping. It's such a feminine thing to do.”

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

“My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.”

“Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?”

“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.”