Marilyn monroe quotes

Marilyn monroe quotes

• 2.
  “I'm selfish, impatientand a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of c ontrol and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, t hen you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.” -- “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you ca n learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're r ight, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” -- “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ri diculous than absolutely boring.”
• 3.
  -- “A wise girlkisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves bef ore she is left.” -- “I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a sma ll girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.” -- “If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.” -- “The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smi ling into your eyes or just staring into space.” -- “If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.” -- “This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up som etimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how y ou'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 t hrough everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Al so remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well , they'll come and go too. And babve, I hate to say it, most of them - actua lly pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't giv e up becuase if you give up, you'll never find your soul mate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just becaus e you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don' t, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and mo st importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's s o much to smile about.”
• 4.
  -- “It's better tobe unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.” -- “When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care eno ugh to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.” -- “Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?” -- “Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.” -- “We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regre ts.” -- “I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bot her to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character f or me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wa sn't.” -- “She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And th at’s important—you know ” -- “Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for th e world.” -- “I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.”
• 5.
  -- “Who said nightswere for sleep?” -- “The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.” -- “All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.” -- “Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” -- “It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.” -- “You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.” -- “We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.” -- “If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere.” -- “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.” -- “I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.”
• 6.
  -- “Success makes somany people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It woul d be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those a round you.” -- “Dogs never bite me. Just humans.” -- “Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.” -- “I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.” -- “I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.” -- “I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!” -- “You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.” -- “I restore myself when I'm alone.” -- “It's all make believe, isn't it?” -- “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile
• 7.
  about.” -- “Diamonds are agirls best friend.” -- “The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.” -- “I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and fe mininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manu facturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's b ased on femininity.” -- “We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people de spise and crush this natural gift.” -- “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 oft en enough and held out for the fifty cents.” -- “I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it. ” -- “Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together” -- “What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course” --
• 8.
  “I used tothink as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be tho usands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. B ut I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.” -- “If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it throu gh, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?” -- “I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself a nd for my talent. ” -- “Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marria ge, she has to hold him to make love to him.” -- “I've been on a calendar, but never on time.” -- “I'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful. I'm sin, but I'm not the devil. I'm good, but I'm not an angel. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.” -- “I love to do the things the censors won't pass.” -- “All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all th e same.” -- “I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.”
• 9.
  -- “Friendship is thebestiest thing that comes to life . Friends will always be there for you don't worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don't never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a go od friend stick to that person .” -- “A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.” -- “I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.” -- “I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talente d or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.” -- “This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up some times, 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 any way. But just remember, some come, somg go. The ones that stay with you throu gh everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.” -- “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” -- “I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I'v e tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, a nd too pleasing.”
• 10.
  -- “When you havea good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend beca use one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don' t tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker t han your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile a nd look up at what you got in life.” -- “Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laug h. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.” -- “I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.” -- “Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.” -- “A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night” -- “Die Liebe und die Arbeit sind die beiden einzigen wahren Dinge in unserem Leben. Sie geh?ren zusammen, sonst ist es schief. Die Arbeit ist selbst e ine Form der Liebe. Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.” -- “Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it mea nt I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”
• 11.
  -- “Being a sexsymbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, h urt and bewildered.” -- “I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the indiv idual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for the m the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's rea lly tragic. ” -- “How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.” -- “I read poetry to save time.” -- “I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn in to dull and little people. ” -- “The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.” -- “ If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. ” -- “I just want to be wonderful.” --
• 12.
  “A smart womankisses but doesn't love, leaves before she is left and forgets before she is forgotten” -- “Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep try ing, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will?? ” -- “Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone. ...they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' they hurt the ones closest to their hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart” -- “Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won 't bother to read what's inside".” -- “Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.” -- “Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.” -- “Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle.” -- “The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ough t to worry if she hasn't any.” --
• 13.
  “Niewa?ne co omnie my?l?, wa?ne ?eby mnie kochali.” -- “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you c an learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their r ight.” -- “No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls shou ld be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.” -- “Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.” -- “It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” -- “There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos.” -- “I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be lo yal to the face I've made. 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.” -- “It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never t o be known at all.” -- “she was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad”
• 14.
  -- “I wanted toask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from sou p to Santa Claus.” -- “That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.” -- “I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I d idn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.” -- “I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, bu t not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker.” -- “In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hair-do. You'r e judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where the y'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 t he fifty cents.” -- “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.” -- “Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose eno ugh to show you're a lady”
• 15.
  -- “You might aswell make yourself fly as to make yourself love.” -- “When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide , and by Wednesday you're laughing again.” -- “For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness n ever becomes a habit.” -- “Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is hea vier to carry around and feel have no confidence.” -- “People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror inste ad 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.” -- “Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.” -- “Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's you r right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.” -- “so keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smili ng, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.” --
• 16.
  “Imperfection is beauty,madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely r idiculous than absolutely boring.” -- “A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves be fore she is left” -- “To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.” -- “Sweetie, If you're gonna be two-faced, at least make one of them pretty.” -- “I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.”