Quotes from Marilyn Monroe
When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.
- Marilyn Monroe
She was a girl who knew how to be happy, even when she was sad. And that's important.
- Marilyn Monroe
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any
- Marilyn Monroe
I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
- Marilyn Monroe
I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
- Marilyn Monroe
Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
- Marilyn Monroe
I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.
- Marilyn Monroe
Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?
- Marilyn Monroe
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
- Marilyn Monroe
Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
- Marilyn Monroe
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
- Marilyn Monroe
I love a natural look in pictures.
- Marilyn Monroe