Quotes

“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.” Marilyn Monroe

“It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.” Marilyn Monroe

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

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

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

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

“It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.” Marilyn Monroe

“I restore myself when I'm alone.” 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.” Marilyn Monroe

“I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.” Marilyn Monroe

“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.” Marilyn Monroe

“A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.” Marilyn Monroe

“What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.” Marilyn Monroe

“Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.” Marilyn Monroe

“Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.” Marilyn Monroe

“I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.” Marilyn Monroe

“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.” Marilyn Monroe

“I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.” Marilyn Monroe

“I've never dropped anyone I believed in.” Marilyn Monroe

“I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.” Marilyn Monroe

“I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.” Marilyn Monroe

“If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.” Marilyn Monroe

“I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.” Marilyn Monroe

“It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.” Marilyn Monroe

“An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.” Marilyn Monroe

“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.” Marilyn Monroe

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

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

“First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.” Marilyn Monroe

“There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.” Marilyn Monroe