798 Quotes by Marilyn Monroe

Happiness is the most important thing in the world, without it, you live a life of depression.

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

For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.

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.

I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.

Friends accept you the way you are.

The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'

They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.