197+ Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Inspiration, Beauty, Hollywood, Love & Marriage

Here we have compiled a list of famous 200 quotes by Marilyn Monroe about beauty, Hollywood, love, marriage, and inspirational quotes.

Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Mortenson) was born on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, California. After spending a difficult and forfeited childhood became the most cherished Hollywood star; as a famous actress, model, and singer.

Her talented and beautiful looks made her the most prominent face of the 50s and early 60s. Still, she is considered a major pop culture icon.

She was a top-billed actress; her films grossed $200 million by the time of her death. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Monroe sixth on its list of the greatest female screen legends from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Here we’ve mentioned the 200 best sayings of Marilyn Monroe that you’ll enjoy reading. Scroll down, and let’s start exploring.

Marilyn Monroe Best Sayings

“My heart belongs to daddy.”— Marilyn Monroe
“Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them; it simply means I respect me.”— Marilyn Monroe
“I’m trying to find myself, sometimes its not easy” — Marilyn Monroe
“A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano – and dumb.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.”— Marilyn Monroe
“I think I made his back feel better.”— Marilyn Monroe
“Suicide is a person’s privilege. I don’t believe it’s a sin or a crime; it’s your right if you do. Though it doesn’t get you anywhere.”— Marilyn Monroe
“I think cheesecake helps call attention to you. Then you can follow through and prove yourself.”— Marilyn Monroe
“The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn’t any.” — Marilyn Monroe
“In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life.”— Marilyn Monroe
“The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.”— Marilyn Monroe
“A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.” — Marilyn Monroe
“There are always two sides to every story.”— Marilyn Monroe
“As far as I can make out, women’s friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You’d think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they’re together.”— Marilyn Monroe
“A sex symbol becomes a thing; I just hate being a thing. But if I’m going to be a symbol of something I’d rather, have it sex than some other things we’ve got symbols of.”— Marilyn Monroe
“Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have.”— Marilyn Monroe
“Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He’s a favorite of mine.”— Marilyn Monroe
“I have never liked sex. I do not think I ever will. It just seems the opposite of love.”— Marilyn Monroe
“For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I keep my undies in the icebox!”— Marilyn Monroe
“One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.”— Marilyn Monroe
“I read poetry to save time.” — Marilyn Monroe
“That’s the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.”— Marilyn Monroe
“The happiest time of my life is now.”— Marilyn Monroe
“Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.”— Marilyn Monroe
“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.” — Marilyn Monroe
“If a man doesn’t want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn’t deserve you at your best.”— Marilyn Monroe
“Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?” — Marilyn Monroe
“I’ve given pure sex appeal very little thought. If I had to think about it, I’m sure it would frighten me.”— Marilyn Monroe
“I do sin, but I am not the devil.”— Marilyn Monroe
“When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.” — Marilyn Monroe
“You’re always running into people’s unconscious.” — Marilyn Monroe
“When Clark Gable died, I cried for two days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I’m very definitely a woman, and I enjoy it.”— Marilyn Monroe
“I restore myself when I’m alone.” — Marilyn Monroe
“That’s the way you feel when you’re beaten inside. You don’t feel angry at those who’ve beaten you. You just feel ashamed.” — Marilyn Monroe
“When you’re young and healthy, you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you’re laughing again.” — Marilyn Monroe
“You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.” — Marilyn Monroe
“She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important – you know.” — Marilyn Monroe
“If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I’ve got to follow it through; what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?” — Marilyn Monroe
“Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.” — Marilyn Monroe
“The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since” — Marilyn Monroe
“Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I’m so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy until I discovered that some people, I admired were like that too.” — Marilyn Monroe
“By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Boys think girls are like books; if the cover doesn’t catch their eye, they won’t bother to read what’s inside.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I don’t understand why people aren’t a little more generous with each other.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I’ve always wanted a baby.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.” — Marilyn Monroe
“When you don’t have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it’s sex. When you have both, it’s health.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Happiness is not in money but in shopping.” — Marilyn Monroe
“It’s better being completely ridiculous than unbelievably boring.” — Marilyn Monroe
“All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren’t.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I don’t want to make money; I just want to be wonderful.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around, and feel have no confidence.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I am good, but not an angel.” — Marilyn Monroe
“In spite of everything, life is not without hope.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will, Sweetie? So, keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” — Marilyn Monroe
“It’s not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing, and there’s so much to smile about.” — Marilyn Monroe
“No girl should ever forget that she doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her.” — Marilyn Monroe
“It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Within crisis, are the seeds of opportunity.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Imperfection is beauty; madness is genius.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I believe this: You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and goddamn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about your business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way. — Marilyn Monroe
“I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will, sweetie?” — Marilyn Monroe
“Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”— Marilyn Monroe
“Sisters make the best friends in the world.” — Marilyn Monroe
“But square-cut or pear-shaped, these rocks don’t lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.” — Marilyn Monroe
“A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.” — Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Inspirational Quotes

“Don’t stop when you’re tired; stop when you’re done.”— Marilyn Monroe
“I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else.”— Marilyn Monroe
“Happiness is the most important thing in the world; without it, you live a life of depression.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Anything possible almost.” — Marilyn Monroe
“The sky is not the limit. Your mind is.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I’m thirty-six years old. I’m just getting started!”— Marilyn Monroe
“There is a future, and I can’t wait to get to it.”— Marilyn Monroe
“Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.”— Marilyn Monroe
“The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.”— Marilyn Monroe
“Who said nights were for sleep?” — Marilyn Monroe
“Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.”— Marilyn Monroe
“You never know what life is like until you have lived it.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.”— Marilyn Monroe
“I sleep in the nude, but I pull the sheets up.”— Marilyn Monroe
“I’m the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream.” — 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.”— Marilyn Monroe
“Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.”— Marilyn Monroe
“Anything’s possible, almost.”— Marilyn Monroe
“Friends accept you the way you are.”— Marilyn Monroe
“Don’t let your fear of failing triumph over the joy of participating.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Remember now, Cheers, no tears.”— Marilyn Monroe
“I believe in everything – a little bit.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes.”— Marilyn Monroe
“Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”— Marilyn Monroe
“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.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.”— Marilyn Monroe
“They will only care when you’re gone.”— Marilyn Monroe
“I don’t forgive people because I’m weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.”— Marilyn Monroe
worry “Do not worry, and worry.”— Marilyn Monroe
“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.”— Marilyn Monroe
“I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead, they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t.”— Marilyn Monroe
“It’s all make-believe, isn’t it?”— Marilyn Monroe
“When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I’m already better than them.” — Marilyn Monroe
“A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.”— Marilyn Monroe
“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.” — Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Beauty

“I’m pretty, but I’m not beautiful.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I like to feel blonde all over.”— Marilyn Monroe
“I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.” — Marilyn Monroe
“The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won’t let them down.”— Marilyn Monroe
“I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!” — Marilyn Monroe
“Don’t you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn’t marry a girl just because she’s pretty, but my goodness, doesn’t it help?” — Marilyn Monroe
“There is nothing positive about being fat. And there is nothing positive about loving yourself. We all need to conform to society’s expectations of who we are because if we don’t, who will? Life is more enjoyable when you are thin and pretty. I was never fat a day in my life and I never will.” — Marilyn Monroe
“There’s only one sort of natural blonde on earth – albinos.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Isn’t there any other part of the matzo you can eat?”— Marilyn Monroe
“I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I don’t mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.” — Marilyn Monroe
“To all the girls that think your fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker.” — Marilyn Monroe
“You must feel attractive to be attractive.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.” — Marilyn Monroe
“The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.” — Marilyn Monroe
“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don’t feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I don’t think sun-tanned skin is any more attractive than white skin, or any healthier, for that matter.” — Marilyn Monroe
“You’re the beautiful one. It’s society that’s ugly.” — Marilyn Monroe
“What do I wear in bed? Why Chanel No. 5, of course.” — Marilyn Monroe
“There are no women who do not like perfume; there are women who have not found their scent.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I said pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Beauty only gets attention, but personality captures the heart.” — Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Hollywood

“We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one.”— Marilyn Monroe
“An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.”— Marilyn Monroe
“It’s a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.” — Marilyn Monroe
“You believe lies, so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?” — Marilyn Monroe
“All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‘Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.’” — Marilyn Monroe
“I’m going to be a great movie star someday.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Well, whatever I am, I am the blonde!” — Marilyn Monroe
“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.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I want to say to the people if I am a star, the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did.” — Marilyn Monroe
“You know, most people really don’t know me.” — Marilyn Monroe
“It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.” — Marilyn Monroe
“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.” — Marilyn Monroe
“If you’re gonna be two-faced, at least make one of them pretty.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks, and I’ve experienced them both.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Only the public can make a star. It’s the studios who try to make a system out of it.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I’m trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that’s not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.” — Marilyn Monroe
“The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.” — Marilyn Monroe
“A career is born in public – talent in privacy.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night – there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Ever notice how ‘What the hell’ is always the right answer?” — Marilyn Monroe
“Never let anyone dull your sparkle.” — Marilyn Monroe
“If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.” — Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Love & Marriage

“Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Promises are worse than lies. You don’t just make them believe; you also make them hope.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart.” — Marilyn Monroe
“It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I could have loved you once and said it but then you went away and when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember?” — Marilyn Monroe
“My marriage didn’t make me sad, but it didn’t make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn’t because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Marriage is the dark side of the honeymoon.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I wanna be loved by you, just you, nobody else but you.” — Marilyn Monroe
“If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.” — Marilyn Monroe
“A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I think to love bravely is the best and accept – as much as one can bear.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I love to do the things the censors won’t pass.” — Marilyn Monroe
“If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I don’t mind living in a man’s world, as long as I can be a woman in it.” — Marilyn Monroe
“A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.” — Marilyn Monroe
“A smart girl leaves before she is left.” — Marilyn Monroe
“All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything – they’re your true best friends. Don’t let go of them.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Enjoy the fact that you’re a woman and men will enjoy it too.” — Marilyn Monroe
“This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn’t see or hear or touch.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world, but the simple word “love” itself already died and went away.” — Marilyn Monroe
“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.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together; otherwise, it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.” — Marilyn Monroe
“A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left.” — Marilyn Monroe
“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile, I am just a girl who wishes for the world.” — Marilyn Monroe
“A wise girl knows her limits; a smart girl knows that she has none.” — Marilyn Monroe
“I could never pretend something I didn’t feel. I could never make love if I didn’t love, and if I loved, I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage, there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.” — Marilyn Monroe
“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.” — Marilyn Monroe

Why did Marilyn Monroe always say?

Marilyn Monroe mostly highlights the insights of Hollywood and her life being an actress. Also, she talked about the love and failures of marriage life. We can’t forget to add that she loves to express her thoughts about beauty.

Why did Marilyn Monroe say about beauty?

Marilyn Monroe was extremely conscious of her beauty. She was a good-looking lady but didn’t merit the beauty adjectives of at least Hollywood. Therefore, she always tried to contour her unfitness, and she did it (although artificially). Her most famous saying about beauty is, “I’m pretty, but I’m not beautiful”.

What did Marilyn Monroe say about Hollywood?

Marilyn Monroe once said, “Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul”. This shows her depth feelings and experience during her career in the industry. She thoughts that there’s no value in a good soul but the scenes matter only. However, she often shows her thoughts about Hollywood, which you can check out in the Marilyn Monroe quotes about Hollywood mentioned above.