I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity. - Marilyn Monroe
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.' - Marilyn Monroe
Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it. - Marilyn Monroe
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone. - Marilyn Monroe
Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision? - Marilyn Monroe
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't. - Marilyn Monroe
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. - Marilyn Monroe
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
Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope. - Marilyn Monroe
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. - Marilyn Monroe
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. - Marilyn Monroe
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature. - Marilyn Monroe
It's all make believe, isn't it? - Marilyn Monroe
I'm not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful. - Marilyn Monroe
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy. - Marilyn Monroe
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space. - Marilyn Monroe
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. - Marilyn Monroe
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
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. - Marilyn Monroe
Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle. - Marilyn Monroe
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents. - Marilyn Monroe
Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat? - Marilyn Monroe
I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made. - Marilyn Monroe
It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on. - Marilyn Monroe
We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. - Marilyn Monroe
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
Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will?? - Marilyn Monroe
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. - Marilyn Monroe
Dogs never bite me. Just humans. - Marilyn Monroe
A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing. - Marilyn Monroe
They will only care when you're gone. - Marilyn Monroe
Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one. - Marilyn Monroe
What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course - Marilyn Monroe
I've been on a calender, but never on time. - Marilyn Monroe
It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far. - Marilyn Monroe
Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. - Marilyn Monroe
All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't. - Marilyn Monroe
It is better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone else. - Marilyn Monroe
I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since. - Marilyn Monroe
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world. - Marilyn Monroe
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. - Marilyn Monroe
If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything. - Marilyn Monroe
A smart girl leaves before she is left - Marilyn Monroe
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest. - Marilyn Monroe
Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life. - Marilyn Monroe
Fear is stupid. So are regrets. - Marilyn Monroe
Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady - Marilyn Monroe
I've been on a calendar, but never on time. - Marilyn Monroe
I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful. - Marilyn Monroe
Gli uomini veri impazziscono per le ragazze che sanno dire di no. Gli stupidi si accontentano delle facili. - Marilyn Monroe
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. - Marilyn Monroe
I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. - Marilyn Monroe
I don't mind living in a man's world as long as i can be a woman in it. - Marilyn Monroe