"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

"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

"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world."
— Marilyn Monroe

"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin,
but I am not the devil. I am just
a small girl in a big world trying to
find someone to love."
— Marilyn Monroe

"If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere."
— Marilyn Monroe

"We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle."
— Marilyn Monroe

"It's all make believe, isn't it?"
— Marilyn Monroe

"All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't."
— Marilyn Monroe

"I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature."
— Marilyn Monroe

"She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know "
— Marilyn Monroe

"Well behaved women rarely make history."
— Marilyn Monroe

"I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity. We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. Art, real art, comes from it, everything."
— Marilyn Monroe

"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Everyone is a star and deserves a chance to shine."
— Marilyn Monroe

"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

"I love to do the things the censors won't pass."
— Marilyn Monroe

"All of us are stars and deserve the right to twinkle."
— Marilyn Monroe

"I'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful. I sin, but I'm not the devil. I'm good, but I'm not an angel."
— Marilyn Monroe

""I'am going to die young because I can't picture myself old."

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— Marilyn Monroe

""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.""
— Marilyn Monroe

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."
— Marilyn Monroe

""You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.""
— Marilyn Monroe