Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Name: Marilyn Monroe
Birthday: June 1, 1926
Known For: Playboy
Occupations: Actress, Model, Singer
Years active: 1947–1962

“A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left.”

- Marilyn Monroe

“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.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so you can appreciate them when they’re right.
You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. And sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“I’m selfish, impatient, and insecure. I make mistakes. I am out of control and at times, hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you don’t deserve me at my best.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“When it comes down to it I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I’m already better than them anyway.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“And sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.
- Marilyn Monroe

“Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius. It is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“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

“What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“I love to do the things the censors won’t pass.”

- Marilyn Monroe

“I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“People respect you because they feel you’ve survived hard times and endured and although you’ve become famous, you haven’t become phony.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“I don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“I’m trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that’s not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves.
But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“I am trying to prove to myself that I am a person. Then may be I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife…I guess I am a fantasy.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“A career is wonderful thing, but you can’t snuggle up to it on a cold night.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“A career is born in public — talent in privacy.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.”

- Marilyn Monroe

“I restore myself when I’m alone.”
- Marilyn Monroe