Quotes By Marilyn Monroe

I read poetry to save time.

In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself, what's the good of being anything at all?

Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?

Who said nights were for sleep?

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.

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.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

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.

It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine.

Sisters make the best friends in the world.

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are.

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.

Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

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

I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

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