Quotes from Marilyn Monroe

It was more fun dreaming about being a movie star than actually being one.

I've been asked, 'Do you mind living in a man's world?' I always answer, 'Not as long as I can be a woman in it'.

Everyone has violence in themselves. I'm violent.

They feel that fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, you know, of any kind of nature - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.

Je suis égoïste, impatiente et peu sûre de moi. Je fais des erreurs, je suis hors de contrôle, et parfois difficile à gérer. Mais si vous ne pouvez pas me supporter pour le pire, nul doute que vous ne me méritez pas pour le meilleur.

Never regret anything, because at one time it was exactly what you wanted.

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.

Sex is nature, and I believe in going along with nature.

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.

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

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

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

It stirs up envy, fame does. People...feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you--and it won't hurt your feelings--like it's happening to your clothing.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody-I don't know who or what-maybe myself. I have feelings some days when there are scenes with a lot of responsiblity, and I'll wish, gee, if only I would have been a cleaning woman.

Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that...' But you do want to stay intact--intact and on two feet.

Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you're a nice guy.

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

I never wear stockings or underclothes because I think it is important to breathe freely.

I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.

They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.

Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced them both.

People ask me if I am going on making cheesecake pictures now that I'm a star. My answer is that as long as there is a boy in Korea who wants a pinup of me, I'll go on posing for them.

I'm going to be a great movie star some day.