1. Marilyn Monroe - “What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.”

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2. Marilyn Monroe - “There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.”

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3. Marilyn Monroe - “That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of.”

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4. Marilyn Monroe - “I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.”

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5. Marilyn Monroe - “I've been on a calendar, but never on Time.”

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6. Marilyn Monroe - “Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives.”

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7. Marilyn Monroe - “It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.”

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8. Marilyn Monroe - “I restore myself when I'm alone.”

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9. Marilyn Monroe - “I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me and that I've made of myself, as a sex symbol. Men expect so much, and I can't live up to it.”

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10. Marilyn Monroe - “I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.”

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11. Marilyn Monroe - “Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.”

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12. Marilyn Monroe - “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.”

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13. Marilyn Monroe - “Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.”

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14. Marilyn Monroe - “The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.”

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15. Marilyn Monroe - “Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.”

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16. Marilyn Monroe - “If I play a stupid girl, and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?”

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17. Marilyn Monroe - “Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.”

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18. 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.”

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19. Marilyn Monroe - “A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.”

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20. Marilyn Monroe - “Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”

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21. Marilyn Monroe - “No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.”

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22. Marilyn Monroe - “I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.”

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

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24. Marilyn Monroe - “Sometimes I've been to a party where noone spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweetie. The ladies would gang up in a corner and discuss my dangerous character.”

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25. Marilyn Monroe - “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.”

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