I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody – I don’t know who or what – maybe myself. I have feelings some days where there are scenes with a lot of responsibility, and I’ll wish, ‘Gee, if only I had been a cleaning woman.’

— Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Quotes

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

— Marilyn Monroe
Inspirational for Women

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

— Marilyn Monroe
Deep About Life Experience Short About Life Live Life

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

— Marilyn Monroe
Self-Worth Personality Positive for Women Witty You Are Amazing

Always remember to smile and look up at what you have in life.

— Marilyn Monroe
Positive for Women Happy Friday Good Morning for Her Good Morning Beautiful

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

— Marilyn Monroe
About Stories

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

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

— Marilyn Monroe

I’ve always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, ‘Hi,’ that the people ought to get their money’s worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

— Marilyn Monroe

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

— Marilyn Monroe

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

— Marilyn Monroe

Someone said to me, ‘If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?’ My answer was then and still is, ‘If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.’

— Marilyn Monroe

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

— Marilyn Monroe

I don’t know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can’t stand to be invited someplace that isn’t full of other important people. They don’t mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

— Marilyn Monroe

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I’m invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who’ll play the piano after dinner, and I know you’re not really invited for yourself. You’re just an ornament.

— Marilyn Monroe

I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.

— Marilyn Monroe

In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.

— Marilyn Monroe

There is nothing positive about being fat. And there is nothing positive about loving yourself. We all need to conform to society’s expectations of who we are, because if we don’t, who will? Life is more enjoyable when you are thin and pretty. I was never fat a day in my life and I never will.

— Marilyn Monroe

After all, all we demanded was a right to twinkle.

— Marilyn Monroe

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

— Marilyn Monroe

There was my name up in lights. I said, ‘God, somebody’s made a mistake.’ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‘Remember, you’re not a star.’ Yet there it was up in lights.

— Marilyn Monroe
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