Marilyn Monroe Quotes

I don’t look at myself as a commodity, but I’m sure a lot of people have.

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

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.

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.

Friends accept you the way you are.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‘One tear, right now,’ that one tear would pop out.