Marilyn Monroe Quotes

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  • I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

  • I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.

    Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group
  • Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside".

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

    Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield
  • Don't stop when you're tired; stop when you're done.

  • Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

  • I want to say to the people, if I am a star, the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did.

    Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group
  • What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

    Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group
  • One of the things I like best about men is they're a little vulnerable.

  • If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best.

  • It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

  • Sisters make the best friends in the world.

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

    Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group
  • I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

  • 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.

    Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group
  • I have always felt comfortable in blue jeans. I have found it interesting, however, that people also whistle at blue jeans. I have to admit that I like mine to fit. There's nothing I hate worse than baggy blue jeans.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!'

  • Within crisis, are the seeds of opportunity.

  • I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker.

  • If fame goes by, 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 experience, but that's not where I live.

    "Marilyn Monroe Pours Her Heart Out". Interview with Richard Meryman, LIFE Magazine, August 3, 1962; later quoted in Ms. Magazine, August 1972.
  • It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.

  • I've fallen in love with Brooklyn. I'm going to buy a little house in Brooklyn and live there. I'll go to the coast only when I have to make a picture.

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

  • People always ask me if I believe diamonds are a girl's best friend. Frankly, I don't.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • ...I've found out it's fun to go shopping. It's such a feminine thing to do.

  • Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous

  • In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty.

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    Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.53, Taylor Trade Publishing
  • I do sin, but I am not the devil.

  • Happiness is not in money, but in shopping.

  • Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose money had bought the studio. It was an art that transformed you into somebody else, that increased your life and mind. I had always loved acting and tried hard to learn it. But with Michael Chekhov, acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.

    Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.171, Rowman & Littlefield
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    Marilyn Monroe

    • Born: June 1, 1926
    • Died: August 5, 1962
    • Occupation: Actress