Marilyn Monroe Quotes: A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. - An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. - 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. - Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. - Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. - 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've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time. - It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far. - 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. - What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.