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.

— Marilyn Monroe

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.

— Marilyn Monroe

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.

— Marilyn Monroe

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.

— Marilyn Monroe

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

— 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

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

— Marilyn Monroe

I don’t mind living in a man’s world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

— Marilyn Monroe

Who said nights were for sleep?

— Marilyn Monroe

All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

— Marilyn Monroe

It’s not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.

— Marilyn Monroe

If you’re gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

— Marilyn Monroe

If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren’t.

— Marilyn Monroe

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

— Marilyn Monroe

It’s far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.

— Marilyn Monroe

We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

— Marilyn Monroe

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

— Marilyn Monroe

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know

— Marilyn Monroe
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