Quotes from Marilyn Monroe

A smile is the best makeup a girl could wear.

This life…is what you make it. No matter what you are going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is, you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends – they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything – They're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

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.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.

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.

I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

I like to feel blonde all over.

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.

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.

All little girls should be told they are pretty.

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.

Happy Birthday, Mr Presidenttttt

Friends accept you the way you are.

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

It's better to be absolutely ridiculous than to be absolutely boring.

We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.