Marilyn Monroe Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

19 Famous Quotes by Marilyn Monroe
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“A career is born in public, talent in privacy.”
Careers Quotes
“The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.”
Censorship Quotes
“The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.”
Cinema Quotes
“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”
Human nature Quotes
“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”
Mordacity Quotes
“Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most people realize for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting.”
Privacy Quotes
“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.”
Girls Quotes
“A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.”
Talent Quotes
“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.”
Marriage Quotes
“In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned do”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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 anyways.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“No one ever called me pretty when I was a little girl”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced them both.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.”
Miscellaneous Quotes