Quotes from Marilyn Monroe

These are some quotes from Marilyn Monroe. Some wisdom to be found:
Quotes :
1.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.
2.Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
3. First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.
4.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.
5. I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

6.I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.
7.I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.
8. I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
9.Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting than being one
10.An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
11.A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.
12. 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.
13. If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.
14.If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.
15.It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone
16.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.

17. Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them
18. No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.
19.The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn’t any.
20.”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.”
21.”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 their 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.”
22.Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

23.”A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left.”
24.”If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.”
25.”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.

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26.”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.”
27.Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.”
28.”If you’re gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”
29.”Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.”
30.”Ever notice how ‘What the hell’ is always the right answer?”
31.The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
32.”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.”
33.”The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.”
34.She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know ”
35.I want to grow old without face-lifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.”
36.”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.”
37.Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
38. 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. We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. Art, real art, comes from it, everything.”
39.”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.”
40.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?”
41.”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. ”
42. I’m for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It’s really tragic. ”
43.i’ll make your heart jump like it was on cocaine.”
44.”sometimes good things fall apart so that better things can fall together”