Marilyn Monroe Quotes and its meanings

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.

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.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

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

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

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

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.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

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.

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

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

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.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

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 experience, but that's not where I live.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

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.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

I think I have always had a little humor.

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.

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

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

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 guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

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.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

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

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

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 don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

I read poetry to save time.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

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.

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.

I read poetry to save time.

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.

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

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

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

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.