Quotes from Marilyn Monroe

Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.

The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

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.

A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.

If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.

Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.

Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

It's easier to look sexy when you're thinking of one man in particular.

If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best.

Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?

Wouldnt it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt... and not get emotionally involved?

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.

Next to my husband and along with Marlon Brando, Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

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