Quotes from Marilyn Monroe

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.

My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.

Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

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.

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

It's all make believe, isn't it?

Do people ever get over being shy? I think it's with you for life-like the color of your eyes.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.

Fame will go by and, 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.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'

I don't digest things with my mind.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.

You're the beautiful one. It's society that's ugly.

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?

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.

A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don't put into it!

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing 'Happy Birthday,' like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!'