Quotes from Marilyn Monroe

If I play a stupid girl, and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?

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

There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos.

I always sleep with my mouth open. I know because it's open when I wake up.

Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have.

He [Arthur Miller] wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.

It's woman's spirit and mood a man has to stimulate in order to make sex interesting. The real lover is the man who can thrill you by touching your head or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

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

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

She [Sadie Thompson] was a girl who knew how to be gay even when she was sad. And that's important--you know?

Everyone's just laughing at me. I hate it. Big breasts, big ass, big deal, Can't I be anything else ? Gee, how long can you be sexy?

I always felt insecure and in the way, but most of all I felt scared. I guess I wanted love more than anything else in the world.

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.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left.

Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. I did sort of think, you know, marriage did that. You see, I was brought up differently from the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy - that's it, successful, happy, and on time.

Sometimes you miss someone so much that you forget you are better without them.