Are you a fan of Marilyn Monroe? Then you must be aware of her famous quotes about life, love and yourself as woman. Even those who are not a fan of Marilyn Monroe, also find her best quotes and sayings great and inspirational. I admit that I am not a fan but I do love Marilyn Monroe quotes especially about being a woman and quotes about love.
Now, if you are looking for the compilation of quotes from Marilyn Monroe, you have just stumble at the right place in the World Wide Web. I’m here to share some of the best quotes by Marilyn Monroe. These quotes of Marilyn Monroe are categorized based on love, life, women, philosophy and wisdom.
Famous Quotes by Marilyn Monroe
I’m selfish, impatient and a little 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 sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and
It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
~ Marilyn Monroe
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
If you can make a woman laugh,
You can make her do anything.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry,
Especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.
~ Marilyn Monroe
A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love,
listens but doesn’t believe,
and leaves before she is left.
~ Marilyn Monroe
“I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you 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
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.
~ Marilyn Monroe
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead
or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.
~ Marilyn Monroe
If you’re gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Ever notice how ‘What the hell’ is always the right answer?
~ Marilyn Monroe
If you can’t handle me at my worst,
then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!
~ Marilyn Monroe
I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.
~ Marilyn Monroe
You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Best Marilyn Monroe Quotes for Women
She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad.
And that’s important—you know
~ Marilyn Monroe
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile
I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
~ Marilyn Monroe
All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren’t.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I don’t mind living in a man’s world, as long as I can be a woman in it.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I don’t mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual.
Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour,
although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured.
Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I have feelings too. I am still human.
All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. ”
~ Marilyn Monroe
I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
~ Marilyn Monroe
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage.
They ought to worry if she hasn’t any.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you
a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough
and held out for the fifty cents.”
~ Marilyn Monroe
What do I wear in bed?
Why, Chanel No. 5, of course
~ Marilyn Monroe
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
~ Marilyn Monroe
“If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question,
I’ve got to follow it through,
what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?
~ Marilyn Monroe
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night —
there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me,
dreaming of becoming a movie star.
But I’m not going to worry about them.
I’m dreaming the hardest.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him.
After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
~ Marilyn Monroe
This life is what you make it.
Not matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth.
But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up.
Girls will be your friends – they’ll act like it anyway.
But just remember, some come, some go.
The ones that stay with you through everything – they’re your true best friends.
Don’t let go of them.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I learned to walk as a baby and I haven’t had a lesson since.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife…. I guess I am a fantasy.
~ Marilyn Monroe
A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world,
not because I was talented or even beautiful,
but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
~ Marilyn Monroe
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
~ Marilyn Monroe
A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night
~ Marilyn Monroe
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man
to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
~ Marilyn Monroe
To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero,
you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Your clothes should be tight enough to show you’re a woman
but loose enough to show you’re a lady
~ Marilyn Monroe
A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.
~ Marilyn Monroe
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
“After all, all we demanded was a right to twinkle.”
~ Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe Inspirational Quotes
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
The nicest thing for me is sleep,
then at least I can dream.
~ Marilyn Monroe
It’s not true that I had nothing on.
I had the radio on.
~ Marilyn Monroe
You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.
~ Marilyn Monroe
We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
~ Marilyn Monroe
It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
~ Marilyn Monroe
We should all start to live before we get too old.
Fear is stupid.
So are regrets.
~ Marilyn Monroe
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.
~ Marilyn Monroe
If I’d observed all the rules I’d never have got anywhere.
~ Marilyn Monroe
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
“I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours.
I’ve tried to change my ways but the things
that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Some people have been unkind.
If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure.
If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh.
Somehow they don’t expect me to be serious about my work.
~ Marilyn Monroe
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
A girl doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her
~ Marilyn Monroe
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Success makes so many people hate you.
I wish it wasn’t that way.
It would be wonderful to enjoy success
without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together
~ Marilyn Monroe
I restore myself when I’m alone.
~ Marilyn Monroe
All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same
~ Marilyn Monroe
It’s all make believe, isn’t it?
~ Marilyn Monroe
We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.
~ Marilyn Monroe
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Boys think girls are like books,
If the cover doesn’t catch their eye they won’t bother to read what’s inside
~ Marilyn Monroe
For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time;
happiness never becomes a habit.
~ 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
You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I said pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I don’t stop when I’m tired. I only stop when I’m done ..
~ Marilyn Monroe
I’m the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream…
~ Marilyn Monroe
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you 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
A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman.
He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him.
He matches it against the world
~ Marilyn Monroe
“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.
~ Marilyn Monroe
In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hair-do.
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 a kiss,
and fifty cents for your soul. I know,
because I turned down the first offer often enough
and held out for the fifty cents.
~ Marilyn Monroe
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.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe quotes about Life
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.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Love and work are the only two real things in our lives.
They belong together, otherwise it is off.
Work is in itself a form of love.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I read poetry to save time.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I’m for the individual as opposed to the corporation.
The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation
has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head.
The artist is nothing. It’s really tragic.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go.
Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right.
~ Marilyn Monroe
The thing I want more than anything else?
I want to have children.
I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
~ Marilyn Monroe
It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Everyone’s a star and deserves the right to twinkle.
~ Marilyn Monroe
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.
~ Marilyn Monroe
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.
~ Marilyn Monroe
When you’re young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide,
and by Wednesday you’re laughing again.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I want to grow old without facelifts…
I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I’ve made.
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young,
but then you’d never complete your life, would you?
You’d never wholly know you
~ Marilyn Monroe
so keep your head high, keep your chin up,
and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing
and there’s so much to smile about.
~ Marilyn Monroe
There’s only one sort of natural blonde on earth – albinos.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Suicide, is a person’s 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
Just because you fail once, it doesn’t mean you’re going to fail at everything.
Keep trying, hold on, and always, always,
always believe in yourself because if you don’t, then who will?
so keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly,
keep smiling because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I had to use my wits or else I’d have been sunk – and nothing’s 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.
~ Marilyn Monroe
The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Try to enjoy myself when I can – I’ll be miserable enough as it is.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights
Belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars.
All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
~ Marilyn Monroe
There is nothing positive about being fat.
And there is nothing positive about loving yourself.
We all need to conform to society’s expectations of who we are,
because if we don’t, who will?
Life is more enjoyable when you are thin and pretty.
I was never fat a day in my life and I never will.”
~ Marilyn Monroe
