Top 400 Marilyn Monroe Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “I learned also that the best way to keep out of trouble was by never complaining or asking for anything.”

— Marilyn Monroe

352. “Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them, not by how happy you can make them.”

— Marilyn Monroe

353. “When I was five I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress.”

— Marilyn Monroe

354. “It’s better to be angry without paying for gold than to be angry after you paid.”

— Marilyn Monroe

355. “I’ve always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, ‘Hi,’ that the people ought to get their money’s worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.”

— Marilyn Monroe

356. “Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.”

— Marilyn Monroe

357. “If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.”

— Marilyn Monroe

358. “Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.”

— Marilyn Monroe

359. “I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.”

— Marilyn Monroe

360. “A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.”

— Marilyn Monroe

361. “I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I’ve always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.”

— Marilyn Monroe

362. “How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.”

— Marilyn Monroe

363. “When you’re famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.”

— Marilyn Monroe

364. “What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?”

— Marilyn Monroe

365. “I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.”

— Marilyn Monroe

366. “Love is something you cant invent, no matter how much you want to.”

— Marilyn Monroe

367. “I’m for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It’s really tragic.”

— Marilyn Monroe

368. “I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.”

— Marilyn Monroe

369. “The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.”

— Marilyn Monroe

370. “The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.”

— Marilyn Monroe

371. “Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings.”

— Marilyn Monroe

372. “I don’t digest things with my mind.”

— Marilyn Monroe

373. “Happiness never becomes a habit.”

— Marilyn Monroe

374. “I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.”

— Marilyn Monroe

375. “My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on.”

— Marilyn Monroe

376. “Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‘One tear, right now,’ that one tear would pop out.”

— Marilyn Monroe

377. “I’m looking forward to becoming a marvelous – excuse the word marvelous – character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.”

— Marilyn Monroe

378. “I don’t know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can’t stand to be invited someplace that isn’t full of other important people. They don’t mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.”

— Marilyn Monroe

379. “I think I have always had a little humor.”

— Marilyn Monroe

380. “You can’t sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.”

— Marilyn Monroe

381. “One of the things I like best about men is they’re a little vulnerable.”

— Marilyn Monroe

382. “It stirs up envy, fame does.”

— Marilyn Monroe

383. “I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.”

— Marilyn Monroe

384. “I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.”

— Marilyn Monroe

385. “In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.”

— Marilyn Monroe

386. “I love a natural look in pictures.”

— Marilyn Monroe

387. “I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.”

— Marilyn Monroe

388. “I didn’t mind being a goof if only he loved me. I felt when we were together that I walked in the gutter and he on the sidewalk. All I did was keep looking up to see if there was love in his eyes.”

— Marilyn Monroe

389. “The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.”

— Marilyn Monroe

390. “Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn’t open one way, try another – perhaps even give it up for another bottle?”

— Marilyn Monroe

391. “A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.”

— Marilyn Monroe

392. “Jack Kennedy could have been a movie star himself. He had the charisma, the charm, that come-hither quality that can never be duplicated. Is it any wonder he got elected president?”

— Marilyn Monroe

393. “At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.”

— Marilyn Monroe

394. “I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.”

— Marilyn Monroe

395. “But as long as one is alive, one can be vital. But you don’t give up until you stop breathing.”

— Marilyn Monroe

396. “Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.”

— Marilyn Monroe

397. “They’ve said I want to direct pictures. I couldn’t direct traffic.”

— Marilyn Monroe

398. “I think I hate it here because there is no love here anymore. I regret the effort I desperately made here.”

— Marilyn Monroe

399. “My God I wanted to learn! To change, to improve!”

— Marilyn Monroe

400. “I’ve given myself away, the whole of me, every part.”

— Marilyn Monroe