Marilyn Monroe Quotes

"If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything."

"Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results."

"A career is born in public -- talent in privacy."

"Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work."

"I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic."

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

"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, leaves before she is left and forgets before she is forgotten."

"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

"In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty."

"My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!"

"Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him."

"Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one."

"Dogs never bite me. Just humans."

"There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos."

"Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, Fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle."

"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."

"Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced them both."

"I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent."

"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."

"It's all make believe, isn't it?"