Marilyn Monroe Quotes

“all girls are beautiful in their own way”

“You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.”

“Everyone’s childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand. By this I don’t know if I’m just giving up with this conclusion or resigning myself — or maybe for the first time connecting with reality. How do we know the pain or another’s earlier years, let alone all that he drags with him since along the way at best a lot of leeway is needed for the other — yet how much is unhealthy for one to bear. I think to love bravely is the best and accept — as much as one can bear.”

“Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.”

“Acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.”

“It was my fans who made me a star.”

“I think every human being knows how to hate. Because if they didn't know how to hate how to hate they wouldn't know how to love.”

“Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”

“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.”

“I'm personally opposed to a deep tan because I like to feel blond all over.”

“I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.”

“I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.”

“Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart.”

“If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.”

“I keep my undies in the icebox!”

“By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition”

“I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.”

“That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.”

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead.”

“In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.”

“The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.”

“If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best.”

“It's better being completely ridiculous than unbelievably boring.”

“Creativity has got to start with humanity.”

“With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.”