Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Who said nights were for sleep?

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I’ll leave those things to the men.

I’m pretty, but not beautiful.
I sin, but I’m not the devil.
I’m good, but I’m not an angel.

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.

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I’ve experienced them both.

I want to be an artist, not… a celluloid aphrodisiac.

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

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don’t feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

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.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

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.

Girls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.