Top 100 Monroe's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him.
Ricky Skaggs
#3. I think Earl Scruggs playing propelled bluegrass and Bill Monroe's music to the level that - where we're all still talking about it.
Earl Scruggs
#4. The worst thing is to have all that clout and not know your own mind. If she says her (Marilyn Monroe's)favorite color is beige, that has to be a definite possibility. Then she will be as dangerous as a Chinese Empress.
Colin Clark
#5. One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.
Clifford Odets
#6. He is Monroe's son." I pointed at Ren. "And he's your best hope to win this war." "He's what?" Shay's voice was dead quiet. I'm what?" Ren kept his own voice to a whisper, but the look he'd thrown me was a bit alarmed.
Andrea Cremer
#8. And all the ministers of the various types of local Baptists had declined to participate in retribution for Monroe's failure to believe in a God with severe limitations on His patience and mercy.
Charles Frazier
#9. The man had asked, Why do you want sheep? The wool? Meat? Monroe's answer had been, For the atmosphere.
Charles Frazier
#10. Washington. In Monroe's Cabinet, Secretary of
Jon Meacham
#11. By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker.
Dave Barry
#12. A joke is a witticism or play on words that's meant to be funny. I say 'meant to be' because most jokes aren't funny. They range between mildly amusing and grimace-inducingly annoying.
Michael Monroe
#13. My very first job was something called 'Nobody's Watching,' that Bill Lawrence who created 'Scrubs,' it was his pilot. It was my very first TV job, and it was a sitcom. Ever since that experience, I've been so itching to get back to that kind of environment and just to be involved with comedy.
Mircea Monroe
#14. He's jealous because lions are better hunters."
Monroe
"Are you compensating for something, Monroe?"
Bastian
Bethany Averie
#15. 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
#16. Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.
Danica McKellar
#17. This vodka is delicious. Not very strong, though." "That's because it's water." "Hmmmph.
Max Monroe
#18. I was working at a restaurant in L.A. when a producer came in. He said I should audition for this movie 'Cellular.' I did, and I got the part. It actually makes me sick to tell that story because it's obnoxious.
Mircea Monroe
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. But how do you know?" "Because it's our book, Cassie. Yours and mine. This is our story, and I'll be damned if I let it end badly." I
Max Monroe
#22. 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
#23. When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.
Earl Monroe
#24. There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos.
Marilyn Monroe
#25. It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
Marilyn Monroe
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. You can read about yourself but what's important is how you feel about yourself.
Marilyn Monroe
#29. 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
#30. If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country.
Paul Monroe
#31. The secret to happiness is to embrace the humility to accept what comes and the courage to continue on your life's path with an open heart.
Mary Alice Monroe
#32. That's what you people do, isn't it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots.
Michael Monroe
#33. We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.
Marilyn Monroe
#34. How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.
Marilyn Monroe
#35. Hey what's your name"
"Candi." She's hesitant, like that beaten dog Jade mentioned. "Candi Woodward."
"I'm Ayla Monroe."
She laughs uneasily. "I know."
"Out, Candi Cane," Jane orders.
Roxanne St. Claire
#36. 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
#37. Most people never know more than a surface layer of each other's personalities. They take the bolder characteristics of a first impression at face value because they're lazy, and they carry those expectations and prejudices throughout the entire relationship.
Max Monroe
#38. 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
#39. Life's a bitch, 'cause if it was a slut it would be easy.
Sophie Monroe
#40. When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.
Marilyn Monroe
#41. The core of me is country. It's what I love. It's what I write. Even when I sing pop stuff, I'm still singing it 'countrily.'
Ashley Monroe
#42. On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.
Tony Curtis
#43. That can definitely mess with your music - if you overthink. 'What's radio going to think?' or 'What are these people going to think?'
Ashley Monroe
#44. When I sing, I go somewhere else. Every time after I sing, I'll ask, 'Did I do OK?' Because I feel like it's like my soul squeezing out of my vocal chords. I don't sit there and think about 'I'm gonna do this next ... ' I just sing. I sing from my heart, and my heart's got a little lonesome in it.
Ashley Monroe
#45. One of my favorite things to do is sit around and listen to old records ... You're forced to listen to the whole thing. And it's so cool digging through the bins trying to find them. I get giddy about records.
Ashley Monroe
#46. It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.
Marilyn Monroe
#47. Roy Acuff's from Maynardville, and that's where a lot of my family's from. So he's, I've been told, a distant cousin, as well.
Ashley Monroe
#48. I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.
Marilyn Monroe
#49. As far as I know, there's nothing more dangerous than a man who doesn't care if he lives or dies.
Michael Monroe
#50. It's better being completely ridiculous than unbelievably boring.
Marilyn Monroe
#51. You've seen one dark, rugged werewolf, you've seen them all. That's what I told myself the first time I laid eyes on Zack Armstrong. I was wrong. Dead wrong. And now that presumption has come back to bite me in the ass.
S.J. Harper
#52. I make up stories in my head all the time, but I've never written them down. But I write a lot of story songs. Any song I'm singing, I sort of see it like a movie in my head. That's why a lot of times I close my eyes when I'm singing.
Ashley Monroe
#53. Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
Marilyn Manson
#54. I've never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It's more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious.
Alfred Hitchcock
#55. I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it sounds horrible but when she dies all her pictures are going to be worth triple. But I won't tell you how much I got them for - let's just say it was a lot.
Melanie Brown
#56. The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'
Marilyn Monroe
#57. I consider Monroe a pretty minor president. In spite of the Monroe Doctrine. That's the only important thing he ever did more or less on his own, when you really get down to it.
Harry S. Truman
#58. I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.
Marilyn Monroe
#59. I admire so many women, it's hard to choose, but I've always loved Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, and Mia Farrow.
Christina Hendricks
#60. I love Judy Garland, I love Doris Day, I love Marilyn Monroe. I love everything that comes from that era. The music is just beautiful and powerful - and simple. That's what makes it so great.
Emmy Rossum
#61. A leader's first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty.
Michael Monroe
#62. It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.
Marilyn Monroe
#63. If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.
Marilyn Monroe
#64. Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?
Marilyn Monroe
#65. I grew up in the indie world and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
Maika Monroe
#67. I've found out it's fun to go shopping. It's such a feminine thing to do.
Marilyn Monroe
#68. 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.
Marilyn Monroe
#69. It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
Marilyn Monroe
#70. I grew up near the University of Michigan, so we'd sneak into college parties. That's where my acting started - lying about the professors I supposedly had and what I was studying.
Mircea Monroe
#71. Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe
#72. Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness ... fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day.
Marilyn Monroe
#73. I'm trying to find myself. Sometimes it's not that easy.
Marilyn Monroe
#74. 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 experience, but that's not where I live.
Marilyn Monroe
#75. Jackson's father said she was built like Marilyn Monroe and had the temperament of Maureen O'Hara. The man was a prophet for sure.
Carolyn Brown
#76. It's a toss-up whether the scenery or the adornment of Marilyn Monroe is the feature of greater attraction in River of No Return. The mountainous scenery is spectacular, but so in her own way is Miss Monroe.
Bosley Crowther
#77. Marriage is more than joining the bonds of two people. It's the uniting of two souls already attuned to each other.
Sophie Monroe
#78. What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?
Ashley Monroe
#79. This curse may seem eternal, but it's not. It can't be. Someday, it will be lifted.
S.J. Harper
#80. 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.
Marilyn Monroe
#81. It's better to be angry without paying for gold than to be angry after you paid.
Marilyn Monroe
#82. When my dad passed, there's a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be until the day I die. So, writing sad songs helps it. And when I sing them, it's pure therapy for me.
Ashley Monroe
#83. found out about your dad?' 'Then I escaped. I wanted to tell
J.S. Monroe
#84. Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?
Marilyn Monroe
#85. One man got so mean and nasty whenever he couldn't play with Maureen's titties that he soiled himself on purpose so she would have to clean his butt and the rest of his private parts. Each time she had to do that, he displayed an erection that would put a horny frat boy to shame.
Mary Monroe
#86. We all end up dying in the end. It's just a question of how and when.
Michael Monroe
#87. But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
Marilyn Monroe
#88. I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.
Marilyn Monroe
#89. Caterpillar must shed its skin five times before it forms the chrysalis. The caterpillar doesn't just change. It completely transforms. The old form dies and the new is reborn. That's the miracle that gives us hope.
Mary Alice Monroe
#90. Most myths were made up by men who needed a scapegoat to avoid taking responsibility for a catastrophe of their own making.
S.J. Harper
#91. I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.
Marilyn Monroe
#92. It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.
Marilyn Monroe
#93. It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
Marilyn Monroe
#94. When I think about old Hollywood and the glamour of those days, women like Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn were not dressing the way some girls dress today. There was a certain mystery about them, and I feel like that's gone in our industry.
Aly Michalka
#95. You shouldn't say mean things to people before they kill you. It's being a sore loser.
Michael Monroe
#96. A person can attack that bottle of vodka and drink it like it's a bottle of cold water. Two of my wife's girlfriends died from drinking. They weren't big pill-takers; they were drinkers. So it can't be so simple as to slide away, like Marilyn Monroe.
William Eggleston
#97. As I began researching butterflies, however, the monarch stood out among all of them. It's the only butterfly - the only insect - that migrates like a bird or a whale!
Mary Alice Monroe
#98. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment.
Marilyn Monroe
#99. I will always hear Tyson Monroe McCabe. Whether it's a whisper, a scream, no matter what Ty says, I will always hear him.
C.M. Stunich
#100. I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.
Marilyn Monroe
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