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40 Memorable Marilyn Monroe Quotes
Marilyn Monroe was an American Icon loved by many. Her quotes will be forever timeless.
1. I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe
2. Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
- Marilyn Monroe
3. I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
4. If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty
-Marilyn Monroe
5. It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
-Marilyn Monroe
6. Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
-Marilyn Monroe
7. A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold.
- Marilyn Monroe
8. An Actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine
-Marilyn Monroe
9. 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
10. If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything
-Marilyn Monroe
11. Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world
-Marilyn Monroe
12. Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
- Marilyn Monroe
13. I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
-Marilyn Monroe
14. I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
-Marilyn Monroe
15. I restore myself when I’m alone.
-Marilyn Monroe
16. I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.
-Marilyn Monroe
17. I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.
-Marilyn Monroe
18. If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.
-Marilyn Monroe
19. We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
-Marilyn Monroe
20. 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
21. Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
-Marilyn Monroe
22. We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
-Marilyn Monroe
23. I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
-Marilyn Monroe
24. Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.
-Marilyn Monroe
25. Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together
-Marilyn Monroe
26. 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
27. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity
-Marilyn Monroe
28. I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
-Marilyn Monroe
29. Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
-Marilyn Monroe
30. I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else.
-Marilyn Monroe
31. How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
-Marilyn Monroe
32. If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
-Marilyn Monroe
33. I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
-Marilyn Monroe
34. Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.
-Marilyn Monroe
35. 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.
-Marilyn Monroe
36. Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady
-Marilyn Monroe
37. Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
-Marilyn Monroe
38. Within Crisis are the seeds of opportunity.
-Marilyn Monroe
39. What the conscious mind can’t recognize, the heart might know
― Marilyn Monroe
40. A girl knows her limits, but a wise girl knows she has none
-Marilyn Monroe
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For some bonus quotes by Marilyn Monroe keep reading!
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
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.
-Marilyn Monroe
Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?
-Marilyn Monroe
There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos.
-Marilyn Monroe
I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.
-Marilyn Monroe, My Story
