Marilyn Monroe Quotes

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

“If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.”

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

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

“Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.”

“I've never dropped anyone I believed in.”

“Friends accept you the way you are.”

“Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?”

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

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

“One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.”

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

“No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.”

“When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.”

“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."

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

“I never wanted to be Marilyn; it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.”

“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.”

“Fame doesn't fulfil you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.”

“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.”

“Fame is like caviar, you know: it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.”

“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.”

“A career is born in public; talent in privacy.”

“A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.”

“I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.”