Top 100 Monroe Marilyn Quotes
#1. How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.
Marilyn Monroe
#2. All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.
Marilyn Monroe
#3. Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.
Billy Wilder
#4. Jack Kennedy could have been a movie star himself. He had the charisma, the charm, that come-hither quality that can never be duplicated. Is it any wonder he got elected president?
Marilyn Monroe
#6. I doubt if any doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry.
Marilyn Monroe
#7. I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
Marilyn Monroe
#8. Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus.
Boy George
#9. I love Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, and Kurt Cobain. I really do. It doesn't matter what style they had - whether it was pin-up or whatever - it just worked for them, and it looked effortless even though it was fabulous. I like anything that just looks effortless.
Behati Prinsloo
#10. A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.
Marilyn Monroe
#11. 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.
Marilyn Monroe
#12. It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
Marilyn Monroe
#13. The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.
Marilyn Monroe
#14. Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.
Marilyn Monroe
#15. A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.
Marilyn Monroe
#16. We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.
Marilyn Monroe
#17. Wise girls kiss but never love
Listen but never believe
And leave befor they are left
Marilyn Monroe
#18. I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.
Marilyn Monroe
#19. I've lived long enough to know that life doesn't always stick to the rules...The perfectly impossible and absolutely ridiculous keep happening all the time.
Elizabeth Winder
#20. An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
Marilyn Monroe
#21. I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked.
Rosanna Arquette
#22. I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.
Doris Roberts
#23. Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.
Marilyn Monroe
#24. You can read about yourself but what's important is how you feel about yourself.
Marilyn Monroe
#25. If a man dreams about sleeping with Marilyn Monroe, he's certainly entitled to that. But when he wakes up, he has to acknowledge that he is married to someone else.
Daniel Barenboim
#26. I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
Charlize Theron
#27. 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.
Marilyn Monroe
#28. It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.
Marilyn Monroe
#29. 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.
Marilyn Monroe
#30. The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.
Marilyn Monroe
#31. I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember?
Marilyn Monroe
#32. Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??
Marilyn Monroe
#34. 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.
Marilyn Monroe
#35. On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.
Tony Curtis
#36. Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
Shania Twain
#37. A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
Marilyn Monroe
#38. I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.
Marilyn Monroe
#39. Me being an ant, at her mountain, I would have tried my best for my voice to reach her peak. But our timing was off, and she hid her pain as stars in clouds. If I had the chance, I would have saved her from all the truths and lies.
Anthony Liccione
#40. I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery.
Pixie Lott
#41. Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.
Marilyn Monroe
#42. Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.
Marilyn Monroe
#43. I learned also that the best way to keep out of trouble was by never complaining or asking for anything.
Marilyn Monroe
#44. When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.
Marilyn Monroe
#45. I think I hate it here because there is no love here anymore. I regret the effort I desperately made here.
Marilyn Monroe
#46. Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
Marilyn Monroe
#47. I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.
Marilyn Monroe
#48. Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted.
Marilyn Monroe
#52. I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
Marilyn Monroe
#53. I love a natural look in pictures. I like people with a feeling one way or another - it shows an inner life. I like to see that there's something going on inside them.
Marilyn Monroe
#54. You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.
Linda Evans
#55. Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one.
Marilyn Monroe
#56. The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe
#57. Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
Marilyn Monroe
#59. I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.
Marilyn Monroe
#60. I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
Marilyn Monroe
#61. Anna [Nicole Smith ] in a lot of ways always thought she was going to die young and she said that she thought she was going to be like Marilyn Monroe. Initially, Anna had always wanted to be buried near Marilyn Monroe.
Howard K. Stern
#62. And you can drop the uninterested shtick right now, Mr. McMillan." That sounded a little like Marilyn Monroe saying Mr. President, didn't it? Yes, it did. And, booyah! "I know you want to.
Julie Ann Walker
#64. Why does Kubrick always chill our blood, and make us huddled up scared stiff with eyes wide shut? Because even dead he's still "Shinnying" with his old hand and his eye-catching plots.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#65. I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me - and that I've made of myself - as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it
Marilyn Monroe
#66. Ever since I became a movie star,I've been really weird.
Marilyn Monroe
#68. When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.
Marilyn Monroe
#70. Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.
Marilyn Monroe
#72. By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker.
Dave Barry
#74. Marilyn Monroe was supposedly a size 16, which is probably why I love her style; it suits me better.
Katherine Jenkins
#75. We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe
#76. I never used to bother with exercises. Now I spend at least 10 minutes each morning working out with small weights
Marilyn Monroe
#79. I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.
Karin Slaughter
#80. As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together.
Marilyn Monroe
#81. I'm personally opposed to a deep tan because I like to feel blond all over.
Marilyn Monroe
#82. If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.
Marilyn Monroe
#83. Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.
Marilyn Monroe
#84. 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.
Marilyn Monroe
#85. Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
Marilyn Monroe
#86. Wow! So you're really smart, huh? This brilliant deduction was offered by a girl with a Marilyn Monroe voice who used glittery pens and wrote each letter of her name in a different color, surrounded by hearts and stars. I had dubbed her Sparkles.
Amy Harmon
#87. I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.
Marilyn Monroe
#88. It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
Marilyn Monroe
#89. If you were married to Marilyn Monroe, you'd cheat with some ugly girl.
George Burns
#90. There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos.
Marilyn Monroe
#91. And as the worms pant for your bones,
I would so like to tell you
that this happens to bears and elephants
Charles Bukowski
#92. I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.
Marilyn Monroe
#93. When we perfect 3-D copiers and they reproduce tissue, we'll have a million Marilyns walking around with no souls ...
John Geddes
#94. I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very far away from that ... So I love very curvy girls.
Carine Roitfeld
#95. I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud
about, Marilyn Monroe?' And I'd answer, 'Everything, everything.'
Marilyn
#96. Even being close to L.A., I was always inspired by old movies and Marilyn Monroe and the glamour of Hollywood.
Gwen Stefani
#97. If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.
Marilyn Monroe
#98. I'm more attracted to glamour than natural beauty. The young Marilyn Monroe was a pretty girl in a sea of pretty girls. Then she had her hair bleached, fake eyelashes, and that's when she became extraordinary. It's that idea of what you're not born with, you can create.
Dita Von Teese
#99. My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will never be stick thin. I remember a shoot where I had to get into these tiny hot pants, and I thought, 'God, I wish I hadn't eaten.'
Katherine Jenkins
#100. If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
Marilyn Monroe
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