Quotes from Marilyn Monroe

I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.

This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're 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, somg go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.

To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one, its society who's ugly.

Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone. ...they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' they hurt the ones closest to their hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart

I love to do the things the censors won't pass.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

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

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.

Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.

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.

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.

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

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

Die Liebe und die Arbeit sind die beiden einzigen wahren Dinge in unserem Leben. Sie gehören zusammen, sonst ist es schief. Die Arbeit ist selbst eine Form der Liebe. Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.

I read poetry to save time.

I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.

A girl doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her

I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.