798 Quotes by Marilyn Monroe

One of the things I like best about men is they’re a little vulnerable.

I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don’t think so.

I’m a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they’ve made of me- and that I’ve made of myself- as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman’s and I can’t live up to it.

I used to say to myself, ‘What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?’ And I’d answer, ‘Everything, everything,’ and I’d walk slowly and turn my head slowly as if I were a queen.

When I was five I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress.

A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano – and dumb.

There is a future, and I can’t wait to get to it.

I never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don’t put into it!