Quotes by Marilyn Monroe

I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm 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

Wisdom

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

— Marilyn Monroe

Wisdom

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

— Marilyn Monroe

Love

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

— Marilyn Monroe

Life

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

Success

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.

— Marilyn Monroe

Wisdom

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

— Marilyn Monroe

Happiness

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

— Marilyn Monroe

Love

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

— Marilyn Monroe

Wisdom

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

— Marilyn Monroe

Wisdom

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

— Marilyn Monroe

Wisdom

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

— Marilyn Monroe

Wisdom

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.

— Marilyn Monroe

Life

A smart girl leaves before she is left.

— Marilyn Monroe

Wisdom

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

— Marilyn Monroe

Courage

I restore myself when I'm alone.

— Marilyn Monroe

Wisdom

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

— Marilyn Monroe

Wisdom

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

— Marilyn Monroe

Life

There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.

— Marilyn Monroe

Life

A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

— Marilyn Monroe

Love

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.

— Marilyn Monroe

Wisdom

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

— Marilyn Monroe

Wisdom

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

— Marilyn Monroe

Hope

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

— Marilyn Monroe

Hope