Quotes by Marilyn Monroe - AI Generated Quotes

Marilyn Monroe

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

-Marilyn Monroe

age

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

alone

I restore myself when I'm alone.

-Marilyn Monroe

alone

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

-Marilyn Monroe

alone

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

-Marilyn Monroe

alone

I am alone I am always alone no matter what.

-Marilyn Monroe

alone

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

alone

A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.

-Marilyn Monroe

alone

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

alone

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

anniversary

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

-Marilyn Monroe

beauty

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour it's based on femininity.

-Marilyn Monroe

beauty

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

-Marilyn Monroe

best

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

-Marilyn Monroe

best

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

best

I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

-Marilyn Monroe

best

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

-Marilyn Monroe

business

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

-Marilyn Monroe

business

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

-Marilyn Monroe

change

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

-Marilyn Monroe

change

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

-Marilyn Monroe

courage

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

-Marilyn Monroe

experience

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

-Marilyn Monroe

famous

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

-Marilyn Monroe

fear

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

-Marilyn Monroe

fear

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

-Marilyn Monroe

freedom

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

friendship

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

god

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

-Marilyn Monroe

good

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

-Marilyn Monroe

good

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

-Marilyn Monroe

good

What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?

-Marilyn Monroe

good

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

-Marilyn Monroe

good

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

-Marilyn Monroe

good

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

good

Marilyn Monroe

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

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.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

I am alone I am always alone no matter what.

A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.

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.

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.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour it's based on femininity.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

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.

I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

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.

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.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

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 am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

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