Quotes from Marilyn Monroe

I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi ' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

I think I have always had a little humor.

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

I am alone I am always alone no matter what.

The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.

I don't know who invented the high heel, but all men owe him a lot.

What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?

A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

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

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.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

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.

When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. 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.

Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.

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

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.