Quotes from Marilyn Monroe

I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

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

I've always wanted a baby.

I've never dropped anyone I believed in.

I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.

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

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.

When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.

I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

Jewish men don't know anything.

A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.

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

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

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

Happiness is not in money, but in shopping.

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.

I'm the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream.