Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.
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Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer, recognized for her captivating performances in films such as "Some Like It Hot" and "The Seven Year Itch". She became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and is remembered for her iconic beauty, charisma, and tragic personal life.
1926–1962·lived 36 years
Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.
It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle
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.
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.
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.The Real Lover, The Socratic Method, 2023
If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.
You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
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.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.The Essential Marilyn Monroe, 2001
I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.Little People, BIG DREAMS, 2020
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.The legend of Marilyn Monroe, Abbie Bakan, Winter 1981
Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.Interview with Richard Meryman, LIFE Magazine, August 3, 1962
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.Interview with Richard Meryman, Life Magazine, August 3, 1962
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.When Things Fall Apart, 2023
Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
That’s all 21 quotes by Marilyn Monroe.