Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. – Marilyn Monroe
I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror. – Marilyn Monroe
With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up. – Marilyn Monroe
I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly. – Marilyn Monroe
I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women. – Marilyn Monroe
I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress. – Marilyn Monroe
A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself. – Marilyn Monroe
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. – Marilyn Monroe
When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries. – Marilyn Monroe
The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know. – Marilyn Monroe
A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many. – Marilyn Monroe
I never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane. – 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. – Marilyn Monroe
Only the public can make a star. It’s the studios who try to make a system out of it. – Marilyn Monroe
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. – Marilyn Monroe
My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation. – Marilyn Monroe
Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. – Marilyn Monroe
I don’t know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can’t stand to be invited someplace that isn’t full of other important people. They don’t mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners. – Marilyn Monroe
Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wide single bed, and I use only one heavy down comforter over me, summer or winter. I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep. – Marilyn Monroe
If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race. – Marilyn Monroe