It's all make believe, isn't it?
- Marilyn Monroe
If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
- Marilyn Monroe
I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
- 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
I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.
- Marilyn Monroe
I restore myself when I'm alone.
- Marilyn Monroe
I am trying to prove to myself that I am a person. Then may be I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
- Marilyn Monroe
People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.
- Marilyn Monroe
Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer.
- Marilyn Monroe
I love to do the things the censors won't pass.
- Marilyn Monroe
What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman? A woman who can have a family ... I'd settle for just one baby. My own baby.
- Marilyn Monroe
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.
- Marilyn Monroe
A career is wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it on a cold night.
- Marilyn Monroe
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
- Marilyn Monroe
It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.
- Marilyn Monroe
My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation - but I'm working on the foundation.
- Marilyn Monroe
Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.
- Marilyn Monroe
A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
- Marilyn Monroe
My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!
- Marilyn Monroe
Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.
- Marilyn Monroe
I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.
- 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
1956 interview about her childhood: Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.
- Marilyn Monroe
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
- Marilyn Monroe
It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
- Marilyn Monroe
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
- Marilyn Monroe
Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.
- Marilyn Monroe
Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.
- Marilyn Monroe
If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do - look intelligent?
- Marilyn Monroe
People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.
- Marilyn Monroe
To a reporter: Please don't make me a joke.
- Marilyn Monroe
That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of.
- Marilyn Monroe
Everyone's just laughing at me. I hate it. Big breasts, big ass, big deal, Can't I be anything else ? Gee, how long can you be sexy?
- Marilyn Monroe
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.
- Marilyn Monroe
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
- Marilyn Monroe
It's woman's spirit and mood a man has to stimulate in order to make sex interesting. The real lover is the man who can thrill you by touching your head or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.
- Marilyn Monroe
Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.
- Marilyn Monroe
Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.
- Marilyn Monroe
I've been on a calendar, but never on time.
- 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've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
- Marilyn Monroe
