Quotes By Marilyn Monroe

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

Men are climbing to the moon, but they don't seem interested in the beating human heart.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.

Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy.

I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

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

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

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.

I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.

There are no women who do not like perfume, there are women who have not found their scent.

I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

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