Marilyn Monroe Quotes - Page 10

All little girls should be told they are pretty.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

Everybody says I can't act. They said the same thing about Elizabeth Taylor. And they were wrong. She was great in A Place in the Sun. I'll never get the right part, anything I really want. My looks are against me. They're too specific.

Well, whatever I am, I am the blonde!

It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

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.

It was my fans who made me a star.

Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness ... fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day.

Sometimes I think I was more in control of my life years and years ago, and yet one should make progress; one should learn more every year and become…well, if not happier, then calmer and more able to handle your problems. But I’m not. Sometimes I just seem to make more problems for myself. I do. It makes me feel I haven’t grown up as much as I should have by now.

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

Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.

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

Sisters make the best friends in the world.

Creativity has got to start with humanity.

The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.

I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted.

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

It's better to be angry without paying for gold than to be angry after you paid.

I've read all of Shakespeare and practiced a lot of lines. ... I am going to do Juliet first. Don't laugh. What, with what makeup, costume and camera can do, my acting will create a Juliet who is 14, an innocent virgin.

Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.

Next to my husband and along with Marlon Brando, Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.

I hear you're looking for a sexy blonde to play with the Marx Brothers. Would you like to see me. I'm blonde and I'm sexy.

I am good, but not an angel.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.

I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.