Marilyn Monroe quotes

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
- Marilyn Monroe

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
- Marilyn Monroe

It’s nice to be included in people’s fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.
- Marilyn Monroe

The way you carry yourself is influenced by the way you feel inside. You must feel attractive to be attractive.
- Marilyn Monroe

Please quote me right!
- Marilyn Monroe

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.
- Marilyn Monroe

I don’t stop when I’m tired. I only stop when I’m done.
- Marilyn Monroe

We should all start to live before we get too old.
- Marilyn Monroe

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

I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t.
- Marilyn Monroe

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

The truth can only be recalled, never invented.
- Marilyn Monroe

Who said nights were for sleep?
- Marilyn Monroe

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.
- Marilyn Monroe

I think there’s two things in human beings… that they want to be alone, but they also want to be together.
- Marilyn Monroe

It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.
- Marilyn Monroe

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

A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano and dumb.
- Marilyn Monroe

Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted.
- Marilyn Monroe

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

In spite of everything life is not without hope.
- Marilyn Monroe

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.
- Marilyn Monroe

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.
- Marilyn Monroe