Top 400 Marilyn Monroe Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “I’ve given pure sex appeal very little thought. If I had to think about it I’m sure it would frighten me.”

— Marilyn Monroe

152. “When you have only a single dream it is more than likely to come true – because you keep working toward it without getting mixed up.”

— Marilyn Monroe

153. “Strong women don’t have ‘attitudes’, we have standards.”

— Marilyn Monroe

154. “I’m thirty-six years old. I’m just getting started!”

— Marilyn Monroe

155. “Enjoy the fact that you’re a woman and men will enjoy it too.”

— Marilyn Monroe

156. “Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.”

— Marilyn Monroe

157. “Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.”

— Marilyn Monroe

158. “I do what I like, I like what I do.”

— Marilyn Monroe

159. “Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.”

— Marilyn Monroe

160. “Diamonds are a girls bestfriend.”

— Marilyn Monroe

161. “I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.”

— Marilyn Monroe

162. “I always felt I was a nobody, and the only way for me to be somebody was to be – well, somebody else. Which is probably why I wanted to act.”

— Marilyn Monroe

163. “Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.”

— Marilyn Monroe

164. “I think every human being knows how to hate. Because if they didn’t know how to hate how to hate they wouldn’t know how to love.”

— Marilyn Monroe

165. “I’ve always wanted a baby.”

— Marilyn Monroe

166. “An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.”

— Marilyn Monroe

167. “Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”

— Marilyn Monroe

168. “If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.”

— Marilyn Monroe

169. “I am good, but not an angel.”

— Marilyn Monroe

170. “I don’t want you to feel depressed, honey. We’ve had a temporary setback.”

— Marilyn Monroe

171. “I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker.”

— Marilyn Monroe

172. “I want to say to the people, if I am a star, the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did.”

— Marilyn Monroe

173. “Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.”

— Marilyn Monroe

174. “People always ask me if I believe diamonds are a girl’s best friend. Frankly, I don’t.”

— Marilyn Monroe

175. “Anything’s possible, almost.”

— Marilyn Monroe

176. “I think to love bravely is the best and accept – as much as one can bear.”

— Marilyn Monroe

177. “A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I’m going to be a symbol of something I’d rather have it sex than some other things we’ve got symbols of.”

— Marilyn Monroe

178. “Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one.”

— Marilyn Monroe

179. “I wanna be loved by you, just you, nobody else but you.”

— Marilyn Monroe

180. “A career is born in public – talent in privacy.”

— Marilyn Monroe

181. “I think I made his back feel better.”

— Marilyn Monroe

182. “The true things rarely get into circulation. It’s usually the false things.”

— Marilyn Monroe

183. “Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don’t feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.”

— Marilyn Monroe

184. “I used to say to myself, ‘What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?’ And I’d answer, ‘Everything, everything,’ and I’d walk slowly and turn my head slowly as if I were a queen.”

— Marilyn Monroe

185. “I was never used to being happy, so that wasn’t something I ever took for granted.”

— Marilyn Monroe

186. “Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever.”

— Marilyn Monroe

187. “I’m so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to.”

— Marilyn Monroe

188. “Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.”

— Marilyn Monroe

189. “A smart girl leaves before she is left.”

— Marilyn Monroe

190. “Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?”

— Marilyn Monroe

191. “I do sin, but I am not the devil.”

— Marilyn Monroe

192. “You’re always running into people’s unconscious.”

— Marilyn Monroe

193. “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

194. “My marriage didn’t make me sad, but it didn’t make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn’t because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.”

— Marilyn Monroe

195. “I don’t think sun-tanned skin is any more attractive than white skin, or any healthier, for that matter.”

— Marilyn Monroe

196. “Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.”

— Marilyn Monroe

197. “Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart.”

— Marilyn Monroe

198. “By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition.”

— Marilyn Monroe

199. “All men are the same. They just have different faces so that women differentiate them.”

— Marilyn Monroe

200. “But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don’t lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.”

— Marilyn Monroe