Quotes by 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.

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

I think I have always had a little humor.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.