Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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When it gets hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the ice box.
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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.
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If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.
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You're the beautiful one. It's society that's ugly.
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It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again. But I believe you’re always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. 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 experienced, but that’s not where I live.
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When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.
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Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart.
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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.
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I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.
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That’s the way you feel when you’re beaten inside. You don’t feel angry at those who’ve beaten you. You just feel ashamed.
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What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.
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Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.
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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.
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Squeezing yourself to ooze out the last ounce of sex allure is terribly hard. I'd like to do roles like Julie in Bury the Dead, Gretchen in Faust and Teresa in Cradle Song.
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The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
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I'm pretty, but not beautiful. I sin, but I'm not the devil. I'm good, but I'm not an angel.
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It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.
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Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.
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The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.
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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.
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Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
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Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?
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I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.
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Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.