Inspiring Marilyn Monroe Quotes to Brighten Your Day

"Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I restore myself when I'm alone."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent."

- Marilyn Monroe

"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."

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"We should all start to live before we get too old."

- Marilyn Monroe

"The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space."

- Marilyn Monroe

"If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything."

- Marilyn Monroe

"We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."

- Marilyn Monroe

"What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest."

- Marilyn Monroe

"One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel."

- Marilyn Monroe

"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful."

- Marilyn Monroe

"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."

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman."

- Marilyn Monroe

"A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself."

- Marilyn Monroe

"This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, 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 anyway. But just remember, some come, somg go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them."

- Marilyn Monroe

"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."

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Fear is stupid. So are regrets."

- Marilyn Monroe

"your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person ."

- Marilyn Monroe

"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."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy."

- Marilyn Monroe

"A career is born in public - talent in privacy."

- Marilyn Monroe

"A smart girl leaves before she is left."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Friends accept you the way you are."

- Marilyn Monroe

"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 often enough and held out for the fifty cents."

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."

- Marilyn Monroe

"A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy."

- Marilyn Monroe

"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"

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal."

- Marilyn Monroe

"A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night."

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle."

- Marilyn Monroe

"If I'm a star, then the people made me a star."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I am alone; I am always alone no matter what."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature."

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!"

- Marilyn Monroe

"What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course"

- Marilyn Monroe

"I love to do the things the censors won't pass."

- Marilyn Monroe

"You know, most people really don't know me."

- Marilyn Monroe

"What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living."

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"It's all make believe, isn't it?"

- Marilyn Monroe

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I like to feel blonde all over."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I defy gravity."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Dogs never bite me - just humans."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'"

- Marilyn Monroe

"If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?"

- Marilyn Monroe

"I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I've been on a calendar, but never on time."

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them."

- Marilyn Monroe