Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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.
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.
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.
Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.
I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.
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.
It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.
I don’t mind living in a man’s world, as long as I can be a woman in it.
Who said nights were for sleep?
All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
It’s not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
If you’re gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren’t.
You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.
It’s far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.
We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know