Marilyn Monroe Quotes That Still Inspire Today

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

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile i am just a girl who wishes for the world.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

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

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

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.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.

Friendship is the bestest thing that comes to life. Friends will always be there for you don't worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don't never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person.

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

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

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

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

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.