Quotes By Marilyn Monroe

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

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

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

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.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

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.

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

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

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

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

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

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

I restore myself when I'm alone.

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.

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.

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

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

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

It's all make believe, isn't it?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.