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Funny & Famous Morgan Freeman Quotes from Movies, including Shawshank

admin — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:41:05 +0000

I’m not intimidated by lead roles. I’m better in them. I don’t feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That’s what I’m born to do.

That’s your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.

I don’t do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it’s funny, it’s funny.

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.

I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.

Your best posture is your next posture.

The highest power is the human mind. That’s where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.

Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what’s going to happen.

We humans are more concerned with having than with being.

And some places you been before are so great that you don’t ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don’t ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we’ll do it for nothing. That’s a basic fact – you gotta do it.

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don’t get it, I can’t do it.

The first thing that always pops into my head regarding our president, is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him… They just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white – very white; American, Kansas, middle of America. There is no argument about who he is, or what he is. America’s first black president hasn’t arisen yet. He’s not America’s first black president. He’s America’s first mixed-race president.

I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that’s, of course, wonderful. I’m really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.

One of the things you can always depend on – this is one of the truths of the universe, and you heard it first from here – whatever we decide we want to do is what we do.

I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture.

I don’t remember what my favourite comedy film is – truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to be able to get out of the theatre because I was in so much pain from the laughter.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

The trick to any profession is making it look easy.

Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of

I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they’re going to go and see the story you’re in.

Don’t be afraid of what you want. This is your time. The barriers are down.

It’s what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That’s all and that’s the hardest thing.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.

People say it’s a movie about boxing, but… I don’t agree at all. I don’t think it’s a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It’s just a stage where this is played out.

And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they’re going to go and see the story you’re in.

As long as you feel like a victim, you are one.

I’m making a great effort because sometimes life is not enjoyable. Sometimes it’s painful and sometimes it’s stressful, sometimes it’s agonizing even, so I think once you get around those humps: strive for pleasure and peace.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.

If you look back on your life and where you started from it’s like looking back down a mountain back to the desert floor. It’s like now I can’t believe I had whatever it takes or perceived whatever it took to get here.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.

Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth.

So if I believe in God, and I do, it’s because I think I’m God.

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

I’m a firm believer that things happen as they should. The universe unfolds just as it’s supposed to.

Once you’ve gotten the job, there’s nothing to it. If you’re an actor, you’re an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

Get busy livin’ or get busy dyin’.

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

I gravitate towards gravitas.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

I’ve been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It’s boring.

Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.

There’s no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

I’ve always been a fan of or desired to or responded to variety. I like variety in life, so variety in work is a must.

It’s just the stupidest law possible… You’re just making criminals out of people who aren’t engaged in criminal activity. And we’re spending zillions of dollars trying to fight a war we can’t win! We could make zillions, just legalize it and tax it like we do liquor. It’s stupid.

I don’t get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn’t appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can’t see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.

Never give up the ganja.

If you want to see a miracle, be the miracle

Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.

Acting means living, it’s all I do and all I’m good at. If I weren’t getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

All you have to do is believe, then you will see everything.

You can’t take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.

Don’t be different just for different’s sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!

This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.

Audiences believe what you believe. It’s a matter of believing yourself. If I believe me, then you’ve got no choice. None at all.

I hate the word homophobia. It’s not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole.

Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear.

You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. ‘Have you found joy in your life?’ ‘Has your life brought joy to others?’

Insanity is being sh*t on, beat down, coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and a key to release it.

I’ve never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin.

Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people.

I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.

Very often, you know, you stop walking because you say, ‘Well, I’m tired of climbing this hill. I’m never going to get to the top.’ And you’re only two steps from the top.

If I stay at home, I’m not famous. I’m only famous when I’m out in the streets, so I don’t go out on the streets much.

I am God. So it’s easy to play him. They say God is in all things. So if God is in me, then I am in God. Therefore, I am God. God does not exist without me.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don’t believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

70+ Famous Charlie Chaplin Quotes About Life, Love And Smiling

admin — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 11:30:12 +0000

Charlie Chaplin was one of the first great Hollywood stars. He began as a silent film star, but in his 1940 film The Great Dictator, he had a speaking part. His famous speech spoke strongly against the fascists and anti-Semitic forces in the world. This made the film controversial.

Charlie Chaplin married Oona O’Neill, daughter of the famous playwright Eugene O’Neill, and they had eight children together. Her family were very much against the match since she was only 18 years old at the time. These Charlie Chaplin quotes are by turns happy and sad, and will inspire your life.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Charlie Chaplin

You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Charlie Chaplin

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Charlie Chaplin

In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature – or go insane

Charlie Chaplin

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

Charlie Chaplin

I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror

Charlie Chaplin

As I began to love myself I refused to go on living in the past and worrying about the future. Now, I only live for the moment, where everything is happening. Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it “FULFILLMENT”

Charlie Chaplin

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Charlie Chaplin

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing! Even to a jellyfish!

Charlie Chaplin

Life and death are too resolute, too implacable to be accidental.

Charlie Chaplin

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection “WISDOM OF THE HEART”

Charlie Chaplin

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.

Charlie Chaplin

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life – doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Charlie Chaplin

Let us strive for the impossible. The great achievements throughout history have been the conquest of what seemed the impossible.

Charlie Chaplin

You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.

Charlie Chaplin

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

Charlie Chaplin

Love is life on a higher plain of existence, working through man to unite the forces of nature into a perfect whole. It is the merging force binding every element in existence into a perfect whole.

Charlie Chaplin

Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.

Charlie Chaplin

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy

Charlie Chaplin

The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant.

Charlie Chaplin

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Charlie Chaplin

I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Charlie Chaplin

As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it ‘maturity’.

Charlie Chaplin

So when I cease to be I want to go back…to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charlie Chaplin

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Charlie Chaplin

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Charlie Chaplin

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish

Charlie Chaplin

You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.

Charlie Chaplin

You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.

Charlie Chaplin

One cannot always approach truth through reason; it confines us to a geometric cast of thought that calls for logic and credibility.

Charlie Chaplin

I have many problems in my life. But my lips don’t know that”. They just keep smiling.

Charlie Chaplin

The accumulating complexities of modern life, the kinetic invasion of the twentieth century finds the individual hemmed in by gigantic institutions that threaten from all sides, politically, scientifically and economically. We are becoming the victims of soul-conditioning, of sanctions and permits.

Charlie Chaplin

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

Charlie Chaplin

Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant

Charlie Chaplin

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charlie Chaplin

Life can be wonderful if you’re not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination … and a little dough

Charlie Chaplin

That is all there is in life — beauty. You find that and you have found everything.

Charlie Chaplin

In the end, everything is a gag.

Charlie Chaplin

Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.

Charlie Chaplin

It isn’t the ups and downs that make life difficult; it’s the jerks.

Charlie Chaplin

We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of problems with ourselves or others. Even stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born. Today I know “THAT IS LIFE”!”

Charlie Chaplin

As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health – food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is Love of Oneself.

Charlie Chaplin

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Charlie Chaplin

Time heals, and experience teaches that the secret of happiness is in service to others.

Charlie Chaplin

Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Charlie Chaplin

I’ve arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane

Charlie Chaplin

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin

The heart and the mind … what an enigma.

Charlie Chaplin

That’s all any of us are: amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.

Charlie Chaplin

I like friends as I like music; when I am in the mood.

Charlie Chaplin

Worry more about your conscience than your reputation. Because your conscience is what you are, your reputation is what others think of you. And what others think of you is their problem.

Charlie Chaplin

People miss happiness by chasing after false values and repressing the feelings that make life valuable and beautiful. When you get up in the morning feeling fine your experience during just those few minutes or hours when you are reacting happily to life is an end in itself.

Charlie Chaplin

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

Charlie Chaplin

Only the unloved hate.

Charlie Chaplin

Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.

Charlie Chaplin

Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

Charlie Chaplin

Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it’s breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you’ll get by if you smile through your pain and sorrow. Smile and maybe tomorrow, you’ll see the sun come shining through for you.

Charlie Chaplin

But there’s something just as inevitable as death. And that’s life. Think of the power of the universe — turning the Earth, growing the trees. That’s the same power within you — if you’ll only have the courage and the will to use it.

Charlie Chaplin

My faith is in the unknown, in all that we do not understand by reason; I believe that what is beyond our comprehension is a simple fact in other dimensions, and that in the realm of the unknown there is an infinite power for good.

Charlie Chaplin

Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

Charlie Chaplin

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Charlie Chaplin

The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.

Charlie Chaplin

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Charlie Chaplin

Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.

Charlie Chaplin

It’s easy to judge. It’s not so easy to understand.

Charlie Chaplin

My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh.But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.

Charlie Chaplin

Imagination means nothing without doing.

Charlie Chaplin

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man’s ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin

You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

Charlie Chaplin

Johnny Depp Quotes On Love & Everything Else From His Best Movies

admin — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 23:09:23 +0000

Since emerging from the dark shadows of an attic to romance Winona Ryder, Johnny Depp's career has been peppered with quirky romantic leads that challenge traditional notions of romance. Whether delving into the marriage of a drug dealer in Blow, a lunatic's unrequited crush as the Mad Hatter or even just an affection for confection as Willy Wonka, loving and all its myriads of meanings have been a staple for Johnny Depp's characters. The quotes presented here are sure to get you thinking about all the ways of loving in all it quirky forms can define a person.

Love means never having to say you’re sorry. However, it is with sincere regret that I must now kill all of you.

Barnabas Collins/Dark Shadows

I think, as an actor, it is good to feel the fear of failing miserably. I think you should take that risk. Fear is a necessary ingredient in everything I do.

Johnny Depp

You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.

Johnny Depp

I do have an affinity for damaged people, in life, in roles. I don’t know why. We’re all damaged in our own way. Nobody’s perfect. I think we are all somewhat screwy, every single one of us.

Johnny Depp

I’m having too much fun today to worry about tomorrow.

Johnny Depp

I think when you are young, you are hoping that this person will be the right one. The one you are going to be in love with forever, but sometimes you want that so much, you create something that isn’t really there.

Johnny Depp

Every relationship has problems but when those problems arise you have to realise that they don’t mean your relationship is broken, it’s just a little bent. Bent things can be fixed and like so your relationship can too. The first step however is realising that.

Johnny Depp

There comes a time when one must take responsibility for one’s mistakes.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

Johnny Depp

She’s kind of a walking poem, she’s this perfect beauty…but at the same time very deep, very smart.

Johnny Depp

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t.

Johnny Depp

if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn’t have fallen for the second.

Johnny Depp

I’m not sure I’m adult yet.

Johnny Depp

It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.

Johnny Depp

A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.

Johnny Depp

The problem is not the problem; the problem is your attitude about the problem.

Johnny Depp

If you don’t like seeing pictures of violence towards animals being posted, you need to help stop the violence, not the pictures.

Johnny Depp

I don’t think anybody’s necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you’ve said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence

Johnny Depp

I’m sure that in time, every bit of her will be gone, and her death will be a mystery… even to me.

Mort Rainey/Secret Window

Love is one of the hardest words to say and one of the easiest to hear.

Johnny Depp

I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all

Johnny Depp

No man can walk out on his own story.

Rango

May the wind always be on your back and the sun upon your face and may the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars. No man can walk out on his own story. ―Rango

Blow

Just keep moving forward and don’t give a sh*t about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.

Johnny Depp

You lied to me by telling me the truth?

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

They say the world used to be bigger. The world’s still the same–there’s just less in it

Johnny Depp

I found a girl, fell in love, she had a baby, and i fell in love again.

Johnny Depp

One day the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.

Johnny Depp

In the gardens of memory, in the palace of dreams, that is where you and I will meet

Mad Hatter/Alice Through the Looking Glass

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time

Johnny Depp

Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.

Johnny Depp

Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world.

Johnny Depp

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labelled

Johnny Depp

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

Johnny Depp

Money doesn’t buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up

Johnny Depp

I’m normal, well, semi-normal.

Johnny Depp

We’re all a mishmash of extremes. I know that I have demons. I don’t know if I want to get rid of them altogether, but I would like to experience them in a different way. Maybe go face to face with them. I’ve never really had the time to go to therapy. Well, here and there. But not enough to help me.

Johnny Depp

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone – but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

Johnny Depp

Throughout my lifetime I’ve left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there’s almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent

Johnny Depp

I was raised on a farm in Mooresville, Indiana. My mama died when I was three. My daddy beat the hell out of me cause he didn’t know no better way to raise me. I like baseball, movies, good clothes, fast cars, whiskey, and you… what else you need to know?

John Dillinger/Public Enemy

Even when you’re down and blue, just remember that someone out there loves you, even if you don’t know it and even if you haven’t yet met them. There’s someone out there waiting for you, remember that and keep faith. You’ll get there.

Johnny Depp

She’s safe, just like I promised. She’s all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we’re all men of our word really… except for, of course, Elizabeth, who is in fact, a woman.

Jack Sparrow/Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

I love people. And when you love people that much that you’re disappointed in them every day, that love can turn to hate in a flash of a second.

Johnny Depp

I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you’re on it.

Johnny Depp

You know, the only thing that matters is the ending. It’s the most important part of the story, the ending. And this one… is very good. This one’s perfect.

Secret Window

This is the one. This is the one I’ll be remembered for.

Ed Wood

I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it’s important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it’s great fun growing old.

Johnny Depp

I’m attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I’m interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I’m interested in the things people try to hide.

Johnny Depp

As soon as we fall in love and we realise we’ve met the one the rest of our lives can’t come soon enough. It’s not like you’re in a rush to get to the finish line, you’re in a rush to feel and experience everything and then do it all again.

Johnny Depp

People cry, not because they are weak. It is because they’ve been strong for too long.

Johnny Depp

Life’s pretty good, and why wouldn’t it be? I’m a pirate, after all.

Johnny Depp

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise, it’s just not acting. It’s lying.

Johnny Depp

I’m not a Blockbuster boy, I never wanted to be. I just don’t want to look back in 30 or 40 or 50 years and have my grandkids say, “You did a lot of stupid sh*t, Granddad. What an idiot you were, smiling for the cameras and playing the game.”

Johnny Depp

Did no one come to save me just because they missed me?

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

Escapism is survival to me.

Johnny Depp

There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living “for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love.

Johnny Depp

There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter. Which, luckily, I am.

Alice in Wonderland

My body is my journal and my tattoos are my story.

Johnny Depp

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it’s going to work or whether I’m going to fall flat on my face.

Johnny Depp

I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

Johnny Depp

If you catch me saying ‘I am a serious actor,’ I beg you to slap me.

Johnny Depp

I have already prepared my counter proposal. It reads thusly: you may strategically place your wonderful lips upon my posterior and kiss it repeatedly!

Barnabas Collins/Dark Shadows

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Johnny Depp

70+ Inspiring and Thought Provoking Bruce Lee Quotes

Sam Gibbons — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 21:53:19 +0000

One of most influential martial artists of all time, Bruce Lee also became a pop culture icon through his movies, and in the process he changed the general portrayal of Asians in Hollywood movies. Not only that, he was also a philosopher and poet. Suffice it to say that he lived a rich and interesting life, which is reflected in his quotes.

Bruce Lee Quotes About Love

One does not necessarily associate tender feelings like love with accomplished fighters such as Bruce Lee. And yet, he was married, had a family life and, as these quotes attest, thought deeply about the subject.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Bruce Lee

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Bruce Lee

Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.

Bruce Lee

Real living is living for others.

Bruce Lee

Linda and I aren’t one and one. We are two halves that make a whole — two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!

Bruce Lee

If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.

Bruce Lee

Seek to understand the root. It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.

Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Quotes About Life

Though his life was cut short in his early thirties, Bruce Lee did more in his brief time on earth than many others do in a 100 years of life. This is reflected in his philosophy and in the wisdom of the thoughts he expressed in the following quotes.

Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.

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Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.

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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

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I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

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The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

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Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

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If there is a God, he is within. You don’t ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.

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For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

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Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

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In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.

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Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot.

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If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

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It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

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I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

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You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

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Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

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Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

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Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.

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Bruce Lee Quotes About Martial Arts

Bruce Lee studied a variety of martial arts since his childhood and even founded a system called Jeet Kune Do. His quotes on martial arts are clearly based on a broad spectrum of experiences.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10 000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10 000 times.

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The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

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Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

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Defeat is a state of mind; No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

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Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

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Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

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Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better. As the great Sun Tzu said: “When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.”

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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

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Obey the principles without being bound by them.

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As you think, so shall you become.

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To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

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A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

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It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you’re being knocked down, ‘Why am I being knocked down?’ If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.

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To me, defeat in anything is merely temporary…Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.

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If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll only make it impossible.

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A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.

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The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited.

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Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.

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The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

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Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image.

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Bruce Lee Quotes About Goals

Lee achieved so much by the time he died at the tender age of 32, and yet his legacy lives on through his films and his words of wisdom. Perhaps these quotes will inspire you for your own goals.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

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If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

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Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being “wholly” and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

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Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

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Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

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To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.

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Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.

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Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

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Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.

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Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

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Be happy, but never satisfied.

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The doubters said,
‘Man can not fly,’
The doers said,
‘Maybe, but we’ll try’
And finally soared
In the morning glow
While non-believers
Watched from below.

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Not being tense but ready.
Not thinking but not dreaming.
Not being set but flexible.
Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.
It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

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There is “what is” only when there is no comparing and to live with “what is” is to be peaceful.

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The more we value things, the less we value ourselves.

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Only the self-sufficient stand alone – most people follow the crowd and imitate.

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I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.

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If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you

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What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

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It’s not what you give, it’s the way you give it.

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Bruce Lee Quotes About Training

Born in the hour and the year of the Dragon, perhaps Bruce Lee was destined for greatness. However, there is no denying that a lot of hard work went into achieving his goals. Perhaps these quotes will inspire you to emulate his hard work.

Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Willing is not enough; We must do.

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If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

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Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.

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Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

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Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

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The doubters said, “Man can not fly,” The doers said, “Maybe, but we’ll try,” And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.

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Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

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If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.

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A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

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Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

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The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

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The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

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Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

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The possession of anything begins in the mind.

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To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

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Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!

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If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

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Bruce Lee Quotes About Being Yourself

Bruce Lee forged a unique path and changed the existing paradigm, so it is not surprising that he knew so much about being true to himself. Let his quotes inspire you to be bold in your own uniqueness.

Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

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Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

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In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.

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Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing. Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

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The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.

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The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition.

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We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day — sometimes good, sometimes frustrating.

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There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That’s the end. That’s when the coffin is closed.

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The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.

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Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths.

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Bruce Lee Quotes About Not Giving Up

Anyone who has achieved anything of value has had to persist. This is especially true for physical disciplines like martial arts. These quotes are proof of the incredible spirit and determination Lee possessed.

Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

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Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.

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Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

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In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.

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I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet ‘paradise’. More important, I no longer fear ‘hell’.

The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment.

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Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

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Bruce Lee Quotes About Family

As with other issues of importance, Bruce Lee considered the topic of family with great depth and insight. Though he only had his own family for some short years before passing away, and that too at a young age, his quotes display the wisdom of a man older than his years.

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Bruce Lee Quotes About Beauty

Bruce Lee himself has been praised for his physique for decades now. He has given hope to an innumerable number of small-framed men with his lithe, sinewy build. The following quotes present his thoughts on beauty and are marked with his characteristically philosophical nature.

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Bruce Lee Quotes About Confidence

Undeniably shaped by his martial arts background, the following are some of Bruce Lee’s thoughts on the optimal state of mind to cultivate and the role of confidence in life.

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

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Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.

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The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

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To be bound by a traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is a way of genius.

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An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.

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One will never get more than he thinks he can get. you have what it takes.

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Freedom discovers the man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

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Our Favorite Marilyn Monroe Quotes on Love, Life and Everything in Between

Sam Gibbons — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 21:33:11 +0000

An icon of femininity, Marilyn Monroe survives in the popular imagination long after her death. Though she is known for her baby voice and platinum locks, there is more to her than her wildly popular image or the insubstantial roles she played in her most famous movies. The following quotes reveal the movie star’s thoughts on all kinds of topics like life, friendship and makeup.

Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Life

Did you know Marilyn Monroe had a philosophical side? Despite her premature death at the age of 36, she certainly learned a lot about life. Here we have gathered some of her most insightful lines.

I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m 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.

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.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

A smart girl leaves before she is left.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

Dogs never bite me – just humans.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.

If I’d observed all the rules I’d never have got anywhere.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else.

Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.

It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

I wanted to be treated as a human being who had earned a few rights since her orphanage days.

Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Love

Rumoured to have been involved with U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe had more than one high-profile romance in her life. In any case, she had plenty of experience to help shape her views regarding love.

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 strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

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 just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

Men who thinks that a woman’s past love affairs lessens her love for them are usually and weak.

A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

It’s often just enough to be with SOMEONE. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you bith. YOU’RE NOT ALONE.

I could never pretend something I didn’t feel. I could never make love if I didn’t love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact tham change the color of my eyes.

You might make yourself fly as to make yourself love.

It’s better to be unhappy alone that unhappy with someone – so far.

You better believe when the conversation is getting shorter with you… it’s getting longer with someone else.

I think that love and work are the only things that really happen to us.

I think there’s two things in human beings… that they want to be alone, but they also want to be together.

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s sad.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Beauty

An object of adoration for much of her life, Monroe seemed fully aware of the power of her appearance. These quotes provide a nuanced look at a subject that was clearly important to her.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

If you’re gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll play you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Sometimes you just have to throw on a crown and remind them who they’re dealing with.

If I worry about other bitches, I’d be just like them… another worried b*tch.

When it comes down to it, let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I’m already better than them anyway.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Always, always, always believe in yourself. Because if you don’t, then who will, sweetie?

To all the girls who think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero. You’re the beautiful one. It’s society who’s ugly.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

I’m the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age; to die young. But then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You’re judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood’s a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty.

This life is what you make it. No matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up.

Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Makeup

There is great debate as to whether Monroe’s beauty mark above the left corner of her mouth was real or not. Whatever the case may be, she certainly had nothing against getting dolled up as these quotes show.

A smile is the best makeup a girl can wear.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

I said pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.

I’ve read all of Shakespeare and practiced a lot of lines. … I am going to do Juliet first. Don’t laugh. What, with what makeup, costume and camera can do, my acting will create a Juliet who is 14, an innocent virgin.

Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they’ll say, ‘Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?’ And they’ll start tailing me. And I don’t mind.

Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Smiling

Monroe struggled with depression, anxiety and substance abuse, and yet with these quotes we witness the brighter side of her life and personality. Perhaps they will give you a reason to smile too.

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.

Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Shoes

Women are crazy about shoes, or so they say. Monroe, as an iconic symbol of femininity, certainly does not challenge the stereotype. With these quotes, she professes her undying love for the accessory.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Being A Woman

To many, her hourglass figure is the ultimate manifestation of womanliness. Fashions come and go, and yet, somehow, Monroe’s version of femininity is still relevant. Here is what she has to say about the gender of which she has become an enduring symbol.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

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

I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

A girl doesn’t need anyone that doesn’t need her.

All a girl really wants from a guy is for him to prove to her that they are not all the same.

If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.

I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect a man to build the world she wants, rather than create it herself.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I’m already better than them.

I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t.

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren’t.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn’t catch their eye they won’t bother to read what’s inside.”

I’m a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they’ve made of me – and I’ve made of myself – as a sex symbol.. but my anatomy is the same as any other womn’s and I can’t live up to it.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Friends

It can be hard to imagine that a figure as public as Marilyn Monroe had an inner life, and yet as the following quotes demonstrate she most certainly did. Here we have gathered some of her thoughts on this most personal of subjects—friendship.

Friends accept you the way you are.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

Friendship is the bestiest thing that comes to life . Friends will always be there for you don’t worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don’t never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action’s are when you see a good friend stick to that person .

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Fashion

Monroe’s impact on popular culture certainly extends to fashion. Consider the white halter dress she wore in The Seven Year Itch or her platinum locks, which inspire copy-cat looks still today. Here are some quotes that capture her thoughts on the topic.

I always say a kiss on the hand feels very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.

I love a natural look in pictures.

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

Marilyn Monroe Quotes About Change

Once known as Norma Jean, Monroe used to be a brown-haired, girl-next-door type. Her dramatic transformation makes her particularly well-suited to talk about the nature of change.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

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.

Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

I restore myself when I’m alone. A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

We should all start to live before we get old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

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.

They think I’m crazy, but trust me… I’m 100% there.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I’ve experienced them both.

Just because you fail once, doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will

This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth.

It’s all make believe, isn’t it?

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you – and it won’t hurt your feelings – like it’s happening to your clothing.

Fame is like caviar, you know — it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home. They’re like people on a stage playing somebody else. They play that they’re important, and they want you to meet their importance, not themselves.

The truth is I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

When I was five I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‘Fine,’ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‘What a horror!’

I think I have always had a little humor.

I don’t digest things with my mind.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‘Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.’

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn’t any.

I defy gravity.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.

Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I’ve ever met.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

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.

I want to be an artist, not… a celluloid aphrodisiac.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

I’m looking forward to becoming a marvelous – excuse the word marvelous – character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Only the public can make a star. It’s the studios who try to make a system out of it.

I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.