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Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Total quotes: 27
“So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.”
— Marilyn Monroe, Snippets Of Marilyn Monroe
Tagged: Self-Confidence
“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
— Marilyn Monroe, INSPIRING LEGENDS: Real Life Inspirational Stories(Book 1)
Tagged: Love, Lover, Intimacy, little things
“That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things they've got symbols of!”
— Marilyn Monroe, Great interviews of the 20th century: Marilyn Monroe interviewed by Richard Meryman
Tagged: inspiration, Inspirational, empowerment, feminism, feminine, Sex, sexuality, sex symbol, symbol
“I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.’”
— Marilyn Monroe, A Quote by Marilyn Monroes
Tagged: forgiveness, Weakness, strength, Understanding
“I restore myself when I’m alone.”
— Marilyn Monroe, Snippets Of Marilyn Monroe
Tagged: Solitude, Alone, Restore
“The truth is 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. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them and fooling them.”
— Marilyn Monroe, On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes
Tagged: Identity
“You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.”
— Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Monroe Quotes about Life
Tagged: Trust Yourself, Life Quotes
“I could tell you all about rejection. Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection... Look at me now.”
— Marilyn Monroe, The Lost Marilyn Monroe Nudes: Outtakes from Her Last On-Set Shoot Revealed in June’s V.F.
Tagged: Rejection, empowerment, Loving Yourself, perseverance
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.’”
— Marilyn Monroe, My Story
Tagged: Imperfection
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
— Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“A woman came up to me asked, ‘You mean to say you didn’t have anything on when you had that calendar picture taken?’ I drew myself up and told her, ‘I did, too, have something on. I had the radio on.’”
— Marilyn Monroe, Saturday Evening Post, May 12, 1956
Tagged: empowerment, Inspirational, inspiration, standing up for yourself
“I think I’m a mixture of simplicity and complexes, but I’m beginning to understand myself now.”
— Marilyn Monroe, Saturday Evening Post, May 12, 1956
Tagged: inspiration, Inspirational, Simplicity, complex, self awareness, empowerment, Understanding
“It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again.”
— Marilyn Monroe, Great interviews of the 20th century: Marilyn Monroe interviewed by Richard Meryman
Tagged: inspiration, Inspirational, Starting Over, empowerment, reinvention
“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.”
— Marilyn Monroe, 30 Inspiring Famous Marilyn Monroe Quotes & Sayings About Love & Life
Tagged: Life Quotes
“To have your heart is
the only completely happy proud possession that has ever belonged to me.”
— Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
Tagged: Marilyns Poems
“Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden.”
— Marilyn Monroe, Great interviews of the 20th century: Marilyn Monroe interviewed by Richard Meryman
Tagged: inspiration, Inspirational, Fame, Fortune, glamor, sexuality
“To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one, its society who's ugly.”
— Marilyn Monroe, Snippets Of Marilyn Monroe
Tagged: beauty, size, Society
“I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted.”
— Marilyn Monroe, Great interviews of the 20th century: Marilyn Monroe interviewed by Richard Meryman
Tagged: inspiration, Inspirational, empowerment, Happy, Happiness
“The truth can only be recalled, never invented.”
— Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
Tagged: Marilyns Poems
“Only parts of us will ever
touch parts of others”
— Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
Tagged: Marilyns Poems
“This is supposed to be an art form, not just a manufacturing establishment. The sensitivity that helps me to act, you see, also makes me react. An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?”
— Marilyn Monroe, Great interviews of the 20th century: Marilyn Monroe interviewed by Richard Meryman
Tagged: inspiration, Inspirational, Acting, actors, Sensitivity
“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 they’re 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.”
— Marilyn Monroe, 30 Inspiring Famous Marilyn Monroe Quotes & Sayings About Love & Life
Tagged: Life Quotes, Change Quotes, Better Quotes
“If you’re gonna be two-faced, at least make one of them pretty.”
— Marilyn Monroe, The Most Beautiful Women in History
Tagged: Two-Faced, Pretty, Personalities, Good, Bad, Two-Sided
“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”
— Marilyn Monroe, Too Good To Be True
Tagged: Dogs, humans, Pain
“Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.”
— Marilyn Monroe, Censoring Hollywood: Sex and Violence in Film
Tagged: Sex, Nature, hookups
“Life —
I am of both of your directions.”
— Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
Tagged: Marilyns Poems
“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.’”
— Marilyn Monroe, A quote by Marilyn Monroe
Tagged: Laughter, Womanhood, Relationships, sexuality
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