Quotes from Marilyn Monroe
It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
- Marilyn Monroe
The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.
- Marilyn Monroe
Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity...
- Marilyn Monroe
First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
- Marilyn Monroe
At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.
- Marilyn Monroe
I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
- Marilyn Monroe
I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.
- Marilyn Monroe
Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.
- Marilyn Monroe
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
- Marilyn Monroe
Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.
- Marilyn Monroe
I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
- Marilyn Monroe
If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.
- Marilyn Monroe