Quotes By Marilyn Monroe

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I've never dropped anyone I believed in.

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.

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

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

If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

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.