Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Looking for some Marilyn Monroe quotes? Calling Marilyn Monroe an icon is an understatement. Her photos are still looked at in awe and she has seemingly influenced every generation's latest platinum blonde sex kittens. So often are her photos looked at that her words have fallen to the wayside. Considering her career, her quotes are poignant and full of highly intelligent, poetic subject matter.

1. "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 was full of advice for young people–particularly other starlets who wanted to make it in Hollywood. With this quote, she sums up her long and tumultuous love life, the love of her career and the love of men.
2. "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." Marilyn knew that, in life, she wanted to keep entertaining her fans. In order to keep her job, she had to keep entertaining the masses. However, she knew that exceptional things in society, at first, are never completely accepted.
3. "If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything." The men in Marilyn's life were high profile and often times feared by others in their industries. From studio executives to famous baseball players, she learned the ways to to open up her own heart. She fell deeply in love with the writer Arthur Miller, who would often humor her and put a smile on her face.
4. "It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on." During lean times in Marilyn's early career, she needed to pay her rent. She posed nude for a photographer and thought nothing of it. However, once her career took off, the nude photos resurfaced and she was given grief from her superiors. This quote was her defensive response when they shouted at her about having nothing on.