Marilyn Monroe movie quotes

“I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.”
Marilyn Monroe

“I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.”
Marilyn Monroe

“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

“I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.”
Marilyn Monroe

“Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you're a nice guy.
[Marilyn Monroe to actor Peter Lawford].”
Marilyn Monroe

“I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public; talent in privacy.”
Marilyn Monroe

“Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.”
Marilyn Monroe

“Sex is nature, and I believe in going along with nature.”
Marilyn Monroe

“Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?”
Marilyn Monroe - Lorelei Lee

“- Ernie Malone: What are you girls made of? What was that?
- Lorelei Lee: Just equal parts of scotch, vodka, brandy, and gin.”
Elliott Reid - Ernie Malone
Marilyn Monroe - Lorelei Lee

“I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.”
Marilyn Monroe - Lorelei Lee

“Dorothy, please, a lady never admits her feet hurt.”
Marilyn Monroe - Lorelei Lee

“- Lady Beekman: It's a tiara.
- Lorelei Lee: You do wear it on your head. I just love finding new places to wear diamonds.”
Norma Varden - Lady Beekman
Marilyn Monroe - Lorelei Lee

“Diamonds are a girl's best friend.”
Marilyn Monroe - Lorelei Lee

“- Dorothy Shaw: Honey, did it ever occur to you that some people just don't care about money?
- Lorelei Lee: Please, we're talking serious here.”
Jane Russell - Dorothy Shaw
Marilyn Monroe - Lorelei Lee

“- Mr. Esmond Sr.: Say, they told me you were stupid! You don't sound stupid to me!
- Lorelei Lee: I can be smart when it's important.”
Tommy Noonan - Gus Esmond Jr.
Marilyn Monroe - Lorelei Lee

“- Esmond Sr.: Have you got the nerve to tell me you don't want to marry my son for his money?
- Lorelei Lee: It's true.
- Esmond Sr.: Then what do you want to marry him for?
- Lorelei Lee: I want to marry him for your money.”
Tommy Noonan - Gus Esmond Jr.
Marilyn Monroe - Lorelei Lee

“- George Loomis: You smell like a dime store. I know what that means.
- Rose Loomis: Sure. I'm meeting somebody, just anybody handy, as long as he's a man! How 'bout the ticket seller himself? I could grab him on the way out, or one of the kids with the phonograph. Anybody suits me. Take your pick.”
Joseph Cotten - George Loomis
Marilyn Monroe - Rose Loomis

“- Sugar Kane Kowalczyk: Isn't water polo terribly dangerous?
- Junior: I'll say. I had two ponies drowned under me.”
Marilyn Monroe - Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
Tony Curtis - Junior

“In Hollywood, a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.”
Marilyn Monroe

“Story of my life. I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.”
Marilyn Monroe - Sugar Kane Kowalczyk

“I don't care how rich he is, as long as he has a yacht, his own private railroad car, and his own toothpaste.”
Marilyn Monroe - Sugar Kane Kowalczyk

“- Sugar Kane Kowalczyk: I met one of them.
- Joe: One of whom?
- Sugar Kane Kowalczyk: Shell Oil Junior. He's got millions, he's got glasses, he's got a yacht!
- Joe: You don't say.
- Jerry: He's not only got a yacht, he's got a bicycle!”
Marilyn Monroe - Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
Tony Curtis - Joe
Jack Lemmon - Jerry

“Real diamonds! They must be worth their weight in gold!”
Marilyn Monroe - Sugar Kane Kowalczyk

“Men who wear glasses are so much more gentle, sweet and helpless.”
Marilyn Monroe - Sugar Kane Kowalczyk