Quotes from Marilyn Monroe

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together

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

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.

If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best.

Wise girls kiss but never love, Listen but never believe, And leave befor they are left.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

I'm sin, but I'm not the devil.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside".

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

I think I have always had a little humor.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'

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

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

I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.