Megan > Megan's Quotes

“Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“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.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Die Liebe und die Arbeit sind die beiden einzigen wahren Dinge in unserem Leben. Sie gehören zusammen, sonst ist es schief. Die Arbeit ist selbst eine Form der Liebe.

Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I read poetry to save time.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“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. ”
― Marilyn Monroe

“It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people. ”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.”
― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“A girl doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her”
― Marilyn Monroe

“That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.”
― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.”
― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“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

“I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I don’t stop when I’m tired. I only stop when I’m done ...”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.”
― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.”
― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“Nieważne co o mnie myślą, ważne żeby mnie kochali.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.”
― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could
love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.”
― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.”
― Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

“Always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, Sweetie? 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