Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal. -Marilyn Monroe Famous
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 Age
The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves. -Marilyn Monroe Truth
Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they'll say, 'Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?' And they'll start tailing me. And I don't mind. -Marilyn Monroe Attitude
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 Marriage
My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots. -Marilyn Monroe Home
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. -Marilyn Monroe Beauty
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 Respect
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 Good
The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space. -Marilyn Monroe Romantic
Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child. -Marilyn Monroe Fear
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. -Marilyn Monroe Movies
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. -Marilyn Monroe Marriage
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 Respect
