Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

Success makes so many people hate you.

I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil.

I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

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

I’m not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.

I’m trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

I am very definite. I am sure of myself.

If I am a star, the people made me a star.

I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

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.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

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.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

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

I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.

I want to be an artist, not…a cellulite.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

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.’

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

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

I don’t think I will ever be able to completely trust anyone again.

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.

A smile is the best makeup a girl can wear.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I’m still here.

I am one of the greatest women that ever lived.

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.

Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.

I don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

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.

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. Men expect so much, and I can’t live up to it.

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.