Quotes By Marilyn Monroe

By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition.

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.

I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.

Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.

A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else.

Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.

Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope.

It is better to be happy alone than to be miserable with someone else.

It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

A career is born in public-talent in privacy.

Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady.

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.