798 Quotes by Marilyn Monroe

As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I’m grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions.

It’s all make believe, isn’t it?

Jewish men don’t know anything.

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

I had to use my wits or else I’d have been sunk – and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me, tugging at me, as if they wanted a piece of me. It was always, ‘do this, do that,’ and not just on the job but off, too. God, I’ve tried to stay intact, whole.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

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

When you’re famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

I don’t want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.