Marilyn Monroe Quotes

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.

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

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

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

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.

It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

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

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!'

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

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50?

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

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.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

I think I have always had a little humor.

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.

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.'

Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wide single bed, and I use only one heavy down comforter over me, summer or winter. I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.

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

I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.

It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

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

I love a natural look in pictures.

A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.

I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm 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.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.