Top 400 Marilyn Monroe Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.”

— Marilyn Monroe

202. “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

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

205. “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

206. “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

207. “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

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

210. “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

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

— Marilyn Monroe

212. “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

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

217. “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

218. “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

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

222. “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

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

— Marilyn Monroe

224. “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

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

— Marilyn Monroe

226. “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

227. “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

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

231. “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

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

234. “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

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

238. “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

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

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

241. “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

242. “Only the public can make a star. It’s the studios who try to make a system out of it.”

— Marilyn Monroe

243. “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

244. “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

245. “Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I’ve ever met.”

— Marilyn Monroe

246. “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.”

— Marilyn Monroe

247. “Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I’m invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who’ll play the piano after dinner, and I know you’re not really invited for yourself. You’re just an ornament.”

— Marilyn Monroe

248. “You can read about yourself but what’s important is how you feel about yourself.”

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Marilyn Monroe

250. “Everybody says I can’t act. They said the same thing about Elizabeth Taylor. And they were wrong. She was great in A Place in the Sun. I’ll never get the right part, anything I really want. My looks are against me. They’re too specific.”

— Marilyn Monroe