798 Quotes by Marilyn Monroe

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

Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don’t expect me to be serious about my work.

We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren’t.

The studio people want me to do “Good-bye Charlie” for the movies, but I’m not going to do it. I don’t like the idea of playing a man in a woman’s body – you know? It just doesn’t seem feminine.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

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

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

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