Top 100 Quotes About Marilyn
#1. We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
Marilyn Manson
#2. If you were married to Marilyn Monroe, you'd cheat with some ugly girl.
George Burns
#3. Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.
Marilyn Manson
#4. The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love-if your so consumed with hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them because your thinking about them for the same amount of time.
Marilyn Manson
#5. I believe a lot about psychology, or I'd like to learn about it - I'm someone who likes to learn about everything.
Marilyn Manson
#6. The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.
Marilyn Manson
#8. I don't believe that happily ever after means we never have disagreements or go through conflicts. What I do believe is that there is someone who is willing to stick through all of these things with me, because we love each other more than we love ourselves.
Marilyn Grey
#10. All I know is that when your soul becomes so entwined with another soul that you can't breathe when he's gone, you have become soul-mates. When you can't live without him and he feels the exact same way.
Marilyn Grey
#11. Marilyn Monroe was supposedly a size 16, which is probably why I love her style; it suits me better.
Katherine Jenkins
#16. One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#17. By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker.
Dave Barry
#18. I'd discovered you never know yourself until you're tested and that you don't even know you're being tested until afterwards, and that in fact there isn't anyone giving the test except yourself.
Marilyn French
#19. There's an exception to every rule, Nora. And you've never failed at being the exception before.
Marilyn Grey
#20. You're who you think you are, even if you never admit it to yourself or to anyone else. You may be in the worst position to judge, but you're in the best position to know.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#22. I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.
Marilyn Hacker
#23. I liked the fact that 'My Week With Marilyn' wasn't a biopic.
Kenneth Branagh
#24. Anyone who thinks they're happy should really see a doctor, because there is no reason to be happy.
Marilyn Manson
#25. Whatever the rationale, the suppression of unorthodox cancer therapies and the sustained persecution of their proponents by government and colleagues runs counter to freedom of thought, much less freedom of choice.
Marilyn Ferguson
#27. I've always felt a kinship with Willy Wonka. Even at that age, I could tell that he was a flawed hero, an icon for the forbidden. The forbidden in this case was chocolate, a metaphor for indulgence and anything you're not supposed to have, be it sex, drugs, alcohol or pornography.
Marilyn Manson
#28. 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
#29. You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education.
Marilyn Howshall
#31. 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
#32. But she continued to wonder what the fish tasted like, so brilliant and vivid pink. Would it taste pink?
Marilyn French
#34. When you grow up in America things like Christianity waters down your feeling ... When you're taught to love everybody, taught to love you're enemies, what value does that put on love?
Marilyn Manson
#35. Ever since I became a movie star,I've been really weird.
Marilyn Monroe
#37. To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.
Marilyn Manson
#38. I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.
Marilyn Manson
#39. Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire
Marilyn Manson
#40. 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
#43. 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
#45. Thank your customer for complaining and mean it. Most will never bother to complain. They'll just walk away.
Marilyn Suttle
#46. What is it about separation, in any or all of its many forms and degrees, that makes it so basic and so sinister, so exciting and so repellent?
Marilyn Frye
#47. Let's just kill everyone and let God sort them out.
Marilyn Manson
#48. 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
#49. I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
Marilyn Monroe
#50. 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
#51. Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted.
Marilyn Kaytor
#52. Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#53. The only thing that anyone can diagnose, with any certainty, by looking at a fat person, is their own level of stereotype and prejudice toward fat people.
Marilyn Wann
#54. By definition, revolutions are not linear, one step at a time, event A leading to event B, and so on. Many causes operate on each other at once. Revolutions shift into place suddenly, like the pattern in a kaleidoscope. They do not so much proceed as crystallize.
Marilyn Ferguson
#55. Mia: Why did you leave?
Sam: What do you mean, 'why did I leave'?
Mia: Well, if I was lost in the forest with someone who looked like that, I'd want to stay lost
Sam: I wasn't lost
Mia: Whatever
Marilyn Phillips
#56. It's always about being yourself and not being ashamed of being different or thinking different.
Marilyn Manson
#57. Get in touch with your passion and put it to work at work.
Marilyn Suttle
#59. Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
Marilyn Monroe
#60. If you act like a rock star you will be treated like one.
Marilyn Manson
#62. The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe
#63. Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one.
Marilyn Monroe
#64. Most of the world's problems could be avoided if people just said what they fucking meant.
Marilyn Manson
#65. I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.
Marilyn Hacker
#66. So, I have to know," he says, "what are you?"
But just because he has to know doesn't mean I have to tell him anything.
Marilyn Hilton
#67. The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.
Marilyn French
#68. Our history suggests that women will continue to show the world how to be friends.
Marilyn Yalom
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.
Simone Signoret
#74. 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
#76. If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
Marilyn Monroe
#77. I like zombie movies. I like 'The Walking Dead;' I like the metaphor of it, simply because when we go with the zombie concept - if you're bitten by a zombie, you don't transform into something else like a vampire or a werewolf or whatever. You become something that's not you.
Marilyn Manson
#78. 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
#79. Because ... as you already know from experience, I wont abandon a damsel in distress
Marilyn Phillips
#80. Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?
Marilyn Manson
#81. Unlike guilt, which is the feeling of doing something wrong shame is the feeling of being something wrong.
Marilyn J. Sorensen
#82. The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.
Marilyn Manson
#83. 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
#84. If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.
Marilyn Manson
#85. If you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is.
Marilyn Manson
#86. If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.
Marilyn Monroe
#87. Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.
Marilyn Manson
#88. Even being close to L.A., I was always inspired by old movies and Marilyn Monroe and the glamour of Hollywood.
Gwen Stefani
#90. George Butterick said, "Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking. . . . And in the deepest mood is friendship held in reverence.
Marilyn Wilson
#91. At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#92. One graduate student told me, "When the Apocalypse comes, you want to know an archaeologist, because we know how to make fire, catch food, and create hill forts," and I promptly added her to my address book. Knows how to make hill forts - who can say when that will come in handy?
Marilyn Johnson
#93. Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#94. Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#95. I have something that makes me happy on some level and this is a good way for me to deal with the torment of that teenage life gave me
Marilyn Manson
#96. America puts killers on the cover of 'TIME' magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.
Marilyn Manson
#97. To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.
Marilyn Manson
#98. The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#99. I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.
Marilyn Manson
#100. So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance understanding, power to name, power to heal. And it means using words as instruments of love.
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
