Top 400 Marilyn Monroe Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “I don’t look at myself as a commodity, but I’m sure a lot of people have.”

— Marilyn Monroe

302. “I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.”

— Marilyn Monroe

303. “After all, all we demanded was a right to twinkle.”

— Marilyn Monroe

304. “The studio people want me to do “Good-bye Charlie” for the movies, but I’m not going to do it. I don’t like the idea of playing a man in a woman’s body – you know? It just doesn’t seem feminine.”

— Marilyn Monroe

305. “A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.”

— Marilyn Monroe

306. “For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.”

— Marilyn Monroe

307. “I hear you’re looking for a sexy blonde to play with the Marx Brothers. Would you like to see me. I’m blonde and I’m sexy.”

— Marilyn Monroe

308. “I don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.”

— Marilyn Monroe

309. “I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.”

— Marilyn Monroe

310. “Creativity has got to start with humanity.”

— Marilyn Monroe

311. “The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can’t buy.”

— Marilyn Monroe

312. “It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.”

— Marilyn Monroe

313. “Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that’s a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido!”

— Marilyn Monroe

314. “Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.”

— Marilyn Monroe

315. “It was my fans who made me a star.”

— Marilyn Monroe

316. “I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.”

— Marilyn Monroe

317. “I’m personally opposed to a deep tan because I like to feel blond all over.”

— Marilyn Monroe

318. “Girls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world.”

— Marilyn Monroe

319. “I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.”

— Marilyn Monroe

320. “Squeezing yourself to ooze out the last ounce of sex allure is terribly hard. I’d like to do roles like Julie in Bury the Dead, Gretchen in Faust and Teresa in Cradle Song.”

— Marilyn Monroe

321. “I love a natural look in pictures. I like people with a feeling one way or another – it shows an inner life. I like to see that there’s something going on inside them.”

— Marilyn Monroe

322. “In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.”

— Marilyn Monroe

323. “I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody – I don’t know who or what – maybe myself. I have feelings some days where there are scenes with a lot of responsibility, and I’ll wish, ‘Gee, if only I had been a cleaning woman.’”

— Marilyn Monroe

324. “What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?”

— Marilyn Monroe

325. “I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.”

— Marilyn Monroe

326. “I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.”

— Marilyn Monroe

327. “Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.”

— Marilyn Monroe

328. “I wish I knew why I am so anguished.”

— Marilyn Monroe

329. “When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.”

— Marilyn Monroe

330. “I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.”

— Marilyn Monroe

331. “There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.”

— Marilyn Monroe

332. “When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.”

— Marilyn Monroe

333. “I had to use my wits or else I’d have been sunk – and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me, tugging at me, as if they wanted a piece of me. It was always, ‘do this, do that,’ and not just on the job but off, too. God, I’ve tried to stay intact, whole.”

— Marilyn Monroe

334. “If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!”

— Marilyn Monroe

335. “I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.”

— Marilyn Monroe

336. “Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.”

— Marilyn Monroe

337. “I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.”

— Marilyn Monroe

338. “Everyone has violence in themselves. I’m violent.”

— Marilyn Monroe

339. “Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.”

— Marilyn Monroe

340. “Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire.”

— Marilyn Monroe

341. “The ‘public’ scares me, but people I trust.”

— Marilyn Monroe

342. “I’ve always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me.”

— Marilyn Monroe

343. “If a man isn’t a certain age, he just isn’t interesting.”

— Marilyn Monroe

344. “I never used to bother with exercises. Now I spend at least 10 minutes each morning working out with small weights.”

— Marilyn Monroe

345. “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.”

— Marilyn Monroe

346. “What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?”

— Marilyn Monroe

347. “I don’t want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.”

— Marilyn Monroe

348. “Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.”

— Marilyn Monroe

349. “I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.”

— Marilyn Monroe

350. “The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.”

— Marilyn Monroe