Marilyn Monroe Quotes

• "An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine."
• "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."
• "Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered."
• "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."
• "Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."
• "I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."
• "I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy."
• "I've been on a calendar, but never on Time."
• "It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on."
• "Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you're a nice guy."
• "Sometimes I've been to a party where noone spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeites...the ladies would gang up in a corner and discuss my dangerous character."
• "The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."
• "A career is born in public - talent in privacy."
• "Nights are not just for sleep."
• "Diamonds are a girl's best friend."
• "A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing."
• "What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No.5, of course"
• "Dogs never bite me. Just humans."
• "I'm going to be a great movie star one day."
• "ever since I became a movie star I've been really weird"
• "A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, Listens but doesn't believe, and leaves Before she is left."
• "I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful."
• "I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it."
• "It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone."
• "The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any."
• "I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one."