Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilyn Monroe

Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.

Marilyn Monroe

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

Marilyn Monroe

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Marilyn Monroe

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

Marilyn Monroe

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

Marilyn Monroe

People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.

Marilyn Monroe

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

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

Marilyn Monroe

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

Marilyn Monroe

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

I read poetry to save time.

Marilyn Monroe

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

Marilyn Monroe

I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.

Marilyn Monroe

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?

Marilyn Monroe

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

Marilyn Monroe

I've never dropped anyone I believed in.

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

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

Marilyn Monroe

Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?

Nikki Giovanni

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.

Matt Damon

My heart goes out to the people of the city of Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with the families who lost loved ones in such a senseless and heartless way.

Muhammad Yunus

Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker.

Muhammad Ali

It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

Muhammad Ali

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

Marilyn Monroe

I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.

Marilyn Monroe

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

Marilyn Monroe

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

Marilyn Monroe

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

Marilyn Monroe

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.

Marilyn Monroe

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Marilyn Monroe

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

Marilyn Monroe

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.