Top 400 Marilyn Monroe Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.”

— Marilyn Monroe

152. “This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends – they’ll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, somg go. The ones that stay with you through everything – they’re your true best friends. Don’t let go of them.”

— Marilyn Monroe

153. “I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.”

— Marilyn Monroe

154. “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

155. “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

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156. “Friends accept you the way you are.”

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

158. “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

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

161. “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

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. “I’ve fallen in love with Brooklyn. I’m going to buy a little house in Brooklyn and live there. I’ll go to the coast only when I have to make a picture.”

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

167. “Diamonds are a girls bestfriend.”

— Marilyn Monroe

168. “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

169. “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

170. “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

171. “I’ve always wanted a baby.”

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

173. “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

174. “I am good, but not an angel.”

— Marilyn Monroe

175. “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

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

— Marilyn Monroe

177. “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

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

180. “Anything’s possible, almost.”

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

182. “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

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

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

— Marilyn Monroe

189. “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

190. “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

191. “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

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

196. “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

197. “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

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe