798 Quotes by Marilyn Monroe

People respect you because they feel you’ve survived hard times and endured, and although you’ve become famous, you haven’t become phony.

No girl should ever forget that she doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

I’m looking forward to becoming a marvelous – excuse the word marvelous – character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

All men are the same. They just have different faces so that women differentiate them.

I don’t know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can’t stand to be invited someplace that isn’t full of other important people. They don’t mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.