798 Quotes by Marilyn Monroe

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.

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

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

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

They will only care when you're gone.

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

I don't mind it being a world of men as long as I was a woman in it.