Marilyn Monroe Quotes

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
Marilyn Monroe

Good, Woman, Why

The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'
Marilyn Monroe

Men, Girl, Working

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
Marilyn Manson

Best, Truth, Real

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
Billy Wilder

Hollywood, Monroe, Marilyn

There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I'm that icon.
Paris Hilton

Nobody, Princess, Blonde

I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps.
Christopher Hitchens

Beautiful, Together, Thought

By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.
Issey Miyake

Size, Monroe, Marilyn

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
Shania Twain

Music, Album, Monroe

I just feel a connection with Marilyn Monroe. I just love her. I just completely feel what she went through.
Anna Nicole Smith

Love, Through, Her

But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.
Pete Townshend

Work, Best, Took

My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will never be stick thin. I remember a shoot where I had to get into these tiny hot pants, and I thought, 'God, I wish I hadn't eaten.'
Katherine Jenkins

God, Thought, Remember

Everybody who's played Marilyn Monroe before has gone down in flames. It's impossible to capture Marilyn Monroe.
Harvey Weinstein

Down, Before, Impossible

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
Charlize Theron

Movies, Monroe, Bette

Marilyn Monroe was supposedly a size 16, which is probably why I love her style; it suits me better.
Katherine Jenkins

Nicole Kidman in particular seems to bring out the butt-kisser in the sassiest of hackettes, as they ceaselessly strive to portray her as some sort of cross between Mother Teresa and Marilyn Monroe.
Julie Burchill

Mother, Between, Her

I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.
Juliette Binoche

Her, Loved, Dinner

I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.
Elizabeth Hurley

Fat, Monroe, Marilyn

I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe.
Sharon Stone

Love, Movies, Thought

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.
Hugh Hefner

Change, Beauty, Great

When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.
Michelle Williams

Movie, Listening, Filming

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.
Sherilyn Fenn

I always loved the style of Jean Seberg, Jane Birkin and Marilyn Monroe.
Helena Christensen

Loved, Style, Monroe

I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I've just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don't know what put that bug in me at a young age.
Holly Madison

Age, Famous, Friends

My favorite actress is Marilyn Monroe.
Elle Fanning

Favorite, Actress, Monroe

You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.
Linda Evans

Success, Mind, Fame

Ever since Marilyn Monroe was transformed from one of the prettiest girls you could ever hope to see into an icon, everyone has been trying to repeat that icon. And now the entire industry is filled with, and by and large run by, wannabes.
Melissa Leo

Hope, Trying, Everyone

When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.
Sally Kirkland

Beautiful, Give, Learned

I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that.
Kim Novak

I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.
Amanda Bynes

Good, Laugh, Try

I remember writing 'The One I Can't Have' at the kitchen table. I was looking at a picture of Truman Capote with Marilyn Monroe and that's where I started. It doesn't make any sense because he was gay, but it was just the idea of the short guy and the beautiful blonde out of his league. That's where I started, but very quickly it became about me.
Teddy Thompson

Beautiful, Gay, Writing

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