Marilyn Monroe Quotes

"I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. I did sort of think, you know, marriage did that. You see, I was brought up differently from the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy - that's it, successful, happy, and on time."

"Well behaved women rarely make history."

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."

"I used to think as I looked at the Hollywood night, 'there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.'"

"People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one."

"As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions."

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

"I always felt insecure and in the way — but most of all I felt scared. I guess I wanted love more than anything else in the world."

"Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them."

"Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have."

"With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself--for survival and living day to day with what comes up."

"I never wear stockings or underclothes because I think it is important to breathe freely."

"It stirs up envy, fame does. People...feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you--and it won't hurt your feelings--like it's happening to your clothing."

"People ask me if I am going on making cheesecake pictures now that I'm a star. My answer is that as long as there is a boy in Korea who wants a pinup of me, I'll go on posing for them."

"He [Arthur Miller] wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde."

"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 when there are scenes with a lot of responsiblity, and I'll wish, gee, if only I would have been a cleaning woman."

"They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic."

"I'm going to be a great movie star some day."

"Unfortunately, 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."

"Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you're a nice guy."