Quotes By Marilyn Monroe

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Sisters make the best friends in the world.

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