Quotes from Marilyn Monroe

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

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.

That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.

A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

I don't stop when I'm tired. I only stop when I'm done ...

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

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.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.

Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.

Always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, Sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.

Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.

It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.

People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hair-do. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.