Quotes from 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
Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone. ...they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' they hurt the ones closest to their hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart
- Marilyn Monroe
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
- Marilyn Monroe
A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
- Marilyn Monroe
Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??
- Marilyn Monroe
I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.
- Marilyn Monroe
A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.
- 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
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
- 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
I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.
- Marilyn Monroe
Try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is.
- Marilyn Monroe