Quotes from Marilyn Monroe

Don't stop when you're tired; stop when you're done.

There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.

If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

Sometimes good things the best things coincide fall apart.

Happiness never becomes a habit.

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.

The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.

Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope.

Creativity has got to start with humanity.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

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.

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle.

When it gets hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the ice box.

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.

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.