Top 184 Quotes by Marilyn Monroe

About Marilyn Monroe

These are some quotes by American author Marilyn Monroe Actress, who lived between June 1, 1926 and August 5, 1962.

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

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

Marilyn Monroe

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50?

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50?

Marilyn Monroe

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

Marilyn Monroe

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

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

Marilyn Monroe

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

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

Marilyn Monroe

Dogs never bite me - just humans.

Dogs never bite me - just humans.

Marilyn Monroe

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

Marilyn Monroe

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.

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.

Marilyn Monroe

There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise 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. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.

Marilyn Monroe

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

Marilyn Monroe

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