Marilyn Monroe Quotes

“If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!”

“Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.”

“I'm thirty-six years old. I'm just getting started!”

“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.”

“In spite of everything life is not without hope.”

“I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”

“Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.”

“Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.”

“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.”

“Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.”

“You're the beautiful one. It's society that's ugly.”

“People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.”

“It's better to be angry without paying for gold than to be angry after you paid.”

“It's all make believe, isn't it?”

“All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'”

“Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right.”

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

“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.”

“I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I'll leave those things to the men.”

“A friend tells you what you want to hear;a best friend tells you the truth.”

“I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!”

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.”

“Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity...”

“As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.”

“Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??”