Quotes by
Marilyn Monroe |
Norma Jeane Mortenson, 1926-1962 , American actress
American actress, famous for playing comic “dumb blonde” characters. She became one of the most popular sex symbols starring in a number of commercially successful films during the 1950s. She continues to be considered a major popular culture icon.
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Quotations
| • | If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything. 16 |
| • | If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty. 16 |
| • | Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. 12 |
| • | What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No.5, of course. 8 |
| • | You know it takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde. 5 |
| • | Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. 5 |
| • | It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone. 4 |
| • | Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. 4 |
| • | A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. 4 |
| • | Dogs never bite me - just humans. 4 |
| • | I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful. 4 |
| • | Who said nights were for sleep? 4 |
| • | I have too many fantasies to be a housewife... I guess I am a fantasy. 4 |
| • | Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world. 3 |
| • | A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left. |
| • | I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times, hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. |
| • | Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. |
| • | Sometimes things fall apart, so that better things can fall together. |
| • | We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets. |
| • | A career is born in public – talent in privacy. |
| • | I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. |
| • | I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it. |
| • | I've been on a calendar, but never on time. |
| • | Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady. |
| • | A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing. |
| • | A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none. |
Personal Stories
| • | I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people. 4 |
| • | If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere. |
Funny Quotes
| • | It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on. 9 |
