Quotes By Marilyn Monroe

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

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.

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.

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.