Marilyn Monroe Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.