Marilyn Monroe

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Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

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.

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.

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?;Friedrich Nietzsche;men 45448;I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.;Henry David Thoreau;men 45449;Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.;Johann Wolfgang von Goethe;men 45450;The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45451;The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45452;Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45453;If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!;Marilyn Monroe;men 45454;When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45455;I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45456;Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45457;Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45458;I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45459;I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.;Marilyn Monroe;men 45460;Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

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.

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

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

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.

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.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

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.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

I love a natural look in pictures.

I am alone I am always alone no matter what.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

I think I have always had a little humor.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

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.

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.