Top 400 Marilyn Monroe Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “I’m going to be a great movie star some day.”

— Marilyn Monroe

202. “A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.”

— Marilyn Monroe

203. “If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.”

— Marilyn Monroe

204. “It’s nice to be included in people’s fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.”

— Marilyn Monroe

205. “If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.”

— Marilyn Monroe

206. “I have always felt comfortable in blue jeans. I have found it interesting, however, that people also whistle at blue jeans. I have to admit that I like mine to fit. There’s nothing I hate worse than baggy blue jeans.”

— Marilyn Monroe

207. “I want to be an artist, not an erotic freak. I don’t want to be sold to the public as a celluloid aphrodisiac.”

— Marilyn Monroe

208. “For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.”

— Marilyn Monroe

209. “There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.”

— Marilyn Monroe

210. “I don’t understand why people aren’t a little more generous with each other.”

— Marilyn Monroe

211. “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

212. “Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.”

— Marilyn Monroe

213. “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.”

— Marilyn Monroe

214. “The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won’t let them down.”

— Marilyn Monroe

215. “Isn’t there any other part of the matzo you can eat?”

— Marilyn Monroe

216. “Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.”

— Marilyn Monroe

217. “Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.”

— Marilyn Monroe

218. “The working men, I’ll go by and they’ll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, ‘Oh, it’s a girl. She’s got blond hair and she’s not out of shape,’ and then they say, ‘Gosh, it’s Marilyn Monroe!’”

— Marilyn Monroe

219. “Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He’s a favorite of mine.”

— Marilyn Monroe

220. “I’m a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they’ve made of me- and that I’ve made of myself- as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman’s and I can’t live up to it.”

— Marilyn Monroe

221. “Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.”

— Marilyn Monroe

222. “I never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.”

— Marilyn Monroe

223. “It’s easier to look sexy when you’re thinking of one man in particular.”

— Marilyn Monroe

224. “Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.”

— Marilyn Monroe

225. “First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.”

— Marilyn Monroe

226. “I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.”

— Marilyn Monroe

227. “I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.”

— Marilyn Monroe

228. “I have too much imagination to be a housewife.”

— Marilyn Monroe

229. “Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have.”

— Marilyn Monroe

230. “I keep my undies in the icebox!”

— Marilyn Monroe

231. “Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.”

— Marilyn Monroe

232. “I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.”

— Marilyn Monroe

233. “But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I’ll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.”

— Marilyn Monroe

234. “There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.”

— Marilyn Monroe

235. “I learned to walk when I was ten months old and I’ve been walking this way ever since.”

— Marilyn Monroe

236. “I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous.”

— Marilyn Monroe

237. “Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?”

— Marilyn Monroe

238. “I feel that beauty and femininity are ageless.”

— Marilyn Monroe

239. “If you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell shouldn’t schedule a meeting with me before 10am.”

— Marilyn Monroe

240. “It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.”

— Marilyn Monroe

241. “I love to do the things the censors won’t pass.”

— Marilyn Monroe

242. “As far as I can make out, women’s friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You’d think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they’re together.”

— Marilyn Monroe

243. “The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.”

— Marilyn Monroe

244. “When it gets hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the ice box.”

— Marilyn Monroe

245. “To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.”

— Marilyn Monroe

246. “I don’t want to play sex roles any more. I’m tired of being known as the girl with the shape.”

— Marilyn Monroe

247. “Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy.”

— Marilyn Monroe

248. “Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don’t mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden.”

— Marilyn Monroe

249. “People respect you because they feel you’ve survived hard times and endured, and although you’ve become famous, you haven’t become phony.”

— Marilyn Monroe

250. “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