Marilyn Monroe Quotations | Page 5

When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.

Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings.

Within crisis, are the seeds of opportunity.

Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever.

Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I’ve been admiring since childhood. I always thought that movie stars were exciting and talented people full of special personality. Meeting one of them at a party I discover usually that he (or she) is colorless and even frightened. I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all

I believe in everything - a little bit.

I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me, tugging at me, as if they wanted a piece of me. It was always, 'do this, do that,' and not just on the job but off, too. God, I've tried to stay intact, whole.

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.

Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.

Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.

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.

I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.

I love a natural look in pictures.

The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody - I don't know who or what - maybe myself. I have feelings some days where there are scenes with a lot of responsibility, and I'll wish, 'Gee, if only I had been a cleaning woman.'

All little girls should be told they are pretty.

People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.

The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.

It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.

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

Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle.

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.

In spite of everything life is not without hope.

Enjoy the fact that you're a woman and men will enjoy it too.

Friendship is the bestiest thing that comes to life . Friends will always be there for you don't worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don't never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person .

try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is.

Happiness is not in money, but in shopping.

Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?

I don't want to be rich, I just want to be loved.

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.

Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.

When you have only a single dream it is more than likely to come true - because you keep working toward it without getting mixed up.

Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right.

The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.

I read poetry to save time.

Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone. ...they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' they hurt the ones closest to their hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart

Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one ... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity.

It's better being completely ridiculous than unbelievably boring.

My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!

The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

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

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.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

I've never dropped anyone I believed in.

I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots

Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one.

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

That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.

It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again. But I believe you’re always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. 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 experienced, but that’s not where I live.

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

This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth.

You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.

Beneath the makeup & behind the smile I'm just the girl who wishes for the world. A wise girl kisses, but doesn't love. Listens but dosen't believe. And leaves before she is left. If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything. 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.

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

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?

I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.

Dogs never bite me - just humans.

Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.

A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where she is flat or straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-36 and inches and ages and numbers, by all the outside things that don’t ever add up to who she is on the inside. And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by the things she can control, by who she is and who she is trying to become. Because as every woman knows, measurements are only statistics... and STATISTICS LIE.

It's all make believe, isn't it?

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

Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes.

I said pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.

Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have.

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

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

Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.

Always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie?

The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.

I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

I love to do the things the censors won't pass.

Happiness is the most important thing in the world, without it, you live a life of depression.

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

Friends accept you the way you are.

Joe: You don't want me, Sugar. I'm a liar and a phony. A saxophone player. One of those no-goodniks you keep running away from. Sugar: I know, every time. Joe: Sugar, do yourself a favor. Go back to where the millionaires are, the sweet end of the lollipop, not the cole slaw in the face, the old socks and the squeezed-out tube of toothpaste. Sugar: That's right. Pour it on. Talk me out of it. (She grabs him to kiss him.)

Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.

It’s easier to look sexy when you’re thinking of one man in particular.

No girl should ever forget that she doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her.

Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside".

Nothing happens without a reason.

A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope.

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

I don't stop when I'm tired. I only stop when I'm done.

When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.

Who said nights were for sleep?

Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know

A girl does not need anyone who does not need her.

Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.