798 Quotes by Marilyn Monroe

I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.

Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'

I feel as though it's all happening to someone right next to me. I'm close, I can feel it, I can hear it, but it isn't really me.

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing 'Happy Birthday,' like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!'

I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden. We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

The truth can only be recalled, never invented.

The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.

A friend tells you what you want to hear;a best friend tells you the truth.