Marilyn Monroe Quotes:
I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.
Marilyn Monroe
Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
MARILYN MONROE
I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
MARILYN MONROE
A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.
MARILYN MONROE
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
MARILYN MONROE
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn’t any.
MARILYN MONROE
To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.
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.
MARILYN MONROE
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.
MARILYN MONROE
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.
MARILYN MONROE
I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
MARILYN MONROE
First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.
MARILYN MONROE
A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
MARILYN MONROE
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
MARILYN MONROE
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.
MARILYN MONROE
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.
MARILYN MONROE