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Marilyn Monroe

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Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
MARILYN MONROE Judas sold his soul for thirty pieces of silver; Faust sold his for some extra years of youth; Maril...
NICHOLAS SAMSTAG I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe...
JOYCE CAROL OATES There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Mon...
PARIS HILTON Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
MAMIE VAN DOREN He married Marilyn Monroe and that certainly didn't hurt his popularity at all.
DAVID HUNT I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
PATRICIA NEAL I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I...
LAURA HADDOCK I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that w...
DORIS ROBERTS What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
MARILYN MONROE I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.
NICOLE KIDMAN I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not pu...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.
CLAIRE BLOOM The word 'success' - who's defining it? It's about whether or not it makes me feel g...
GRACE SLICK I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
PATRICIA NEAL I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.
ELIZABETH HURLEY I'm not the marrying type! But if I did get married, I definitely wouldn't be a bridezilla.
ERIN RICHARDS I wouldn't have become an engineer, I wouldn't have done what I did, had a hand not been hel...
MICHAEL LEE-CHIN If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turne...
STEPHEN HAWKING I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that.
LIZA MINNELLI I'm kind of fixated with old Hollywood, like Marilyn Monroe.
EDY GANEM If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't have done it. If I had a million bucks in the bank, I ...
CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN Marilyn Monroe? A vacuum with nipples
OTTO PREMINGER I'm lucky because I had blonde hair for a while for this TV show I was doing - they had me dye m...
HALEY LU RICHARDSON I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know...
DOLLY PARTON I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe.
ANNA NICOLE SMITH If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Sug...
MALCOLM BRADBURY My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn...
SAM DONALDSON If I hadn't been a determined person I wouldn't have succeeded in life.
ELIE SAAB I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
SAM CRAWFORD My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not ...
CAITLYN JENNER I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. ...
DANIEL BOULUD I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.
TATUM O'NEAL Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER I know throughout my childhood, there were many times I couldn't stand being a 'Jr.' I w...
FREDDIE PRINZE, JR. By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.
ISSEY MIYAKE Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, an...
DANICA MCKELLAR I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde.
DOLLY PARTON Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movi...
MAMIE VAN DOREN I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb - and I'm not blonde eithe...
DOLLY PARTON I always had ambitions to work in the U.K. I just never thought it was gonna happen so soon. So I th...
BEN SCHNETZER I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
CHARLIZE THERON I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made...
MARILYN MONROE A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le sou...
ANTONIO TABUCCHI I just want to be wonderful.
MARILYN MONROE I got a lot of influences. I got relevant influences today. I got influences that you wouldn't e...
LIL UZI VERT If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended...
M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do fo...
BING CROSBY If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD If it wasn't for life, I wouldn't have you.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS People keep asking me if I am having more fun, being blonde, but I always have fun! Whether I'm ...
KELLY CLARKSON From Marilyn Monroe to Madonna, that says it all.
GINA BROOKE The eyes of Stalin, the voice of Marilyn Monroe.
FRANCOIS MITTERAND Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't h...
ZAYN MALIK I look up to Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn and old styles. You will never see me in a crop top a...
ELLA HENDERSON I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'...
DOLLY PARTON Could I have walked out then? If I had, Terry wouldn't have accepted the job.
BRYAN ROBSON I was asked once if I ever got tired of playing bimbos, and I answered that I've never played a ...
MORGAN FAIRCHILD Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me...
BILLY WILDER Because I'm a woman, and I'm petite and blonde, you wouldn't believe how often I'm a...
PHOEBE PHILO I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very...
CARINE ROITFELD If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little fas...
ISAAC ASIMOV I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't kno...
SOFIA VERGARA In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
CARA DELEVINGNE I won't say I didn't like it at the time, the sex, that is, because I wouldn't have let ...
CHRISTINE KEELER If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on...
LANCE GROSS Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, ...
LINDSEY VONN I remember when I was doing 'The Crucible' on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller ...
JOHN BENJAMIN HICKEY I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
INGRID BERGMAN I'm so grateful for the marriages that I have had. I wouldn't be who I am today if I hadn...
CHERYL TIEGS My feeling is that the judge has a responsibility to the Constitution first, precedent second. Prece...
RICK SANTORUM If we had a consensus we wouldn't have to go to a referendum.
GEORGE PAPANDREOU People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, ...
JAMES EARL JONES A lot of times, I'll get roles where it's the dumb blonde or the cheerleader, and I just hav...
MAIKA MONROE What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the ri...
EVE ARNOLD I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downt...
DAN STEVENS It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.
MARILYN MONROE If I had to do it over, I wouldn't change a thing.
BILLY SHEEHAN I'm such a blonde. It just doesn't make sense for me to have dark hair.
JESSICA SIMPSON There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to th...
TAMARA MELLON The new acts' major influences were movies and their curvy queens Brigitte Bardot and Marilyn Monroe...
DITA VON TEESE The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too...
EDDIE SLOVIK Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'...
MARILYN MANSON My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will ne...
KATHERINE JENKINS The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, ...
KEN LIVINGSTONE I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn&...
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
IAN MCSHANE I believe that the American audience is not so dumb that they wouldn't be interested in a black ...
EUZHAN PALCY I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't i...
GEEZER BUTLER I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurre...
EDITH WIDDER Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
SHANIA TWAIN There are actresses who've had expensive work done and look great, so I'm not holier-than-th...
CELIA IMRIE The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or mo...
ETHEL WATERS I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN I just feel a connection with Marilyn Monroe. I just love her. I just completely feel what she went ...
ANNA NICOLE SMITH If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN If someone gets married at 15, they're either dumb or pregnant. I was both.
CARLENE CARTER I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly....
BARRY HANNAH I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist...
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MARILYN MONROE A smart girl leaves before she is left.
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MARILYN MONROE The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
MARILYN MONROE Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't...
MARILYN MONROE What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
MARILYN MONROE It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.
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MARILYN MONROE I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!
MARILYN MONROE Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
MARILYN MONROE I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
MARILYN MONROE Friends accept you the way you are.
MARILYN MONROE I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.
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MARILYN MONROE We should all start to live before we get too old.
MARILYN MONROE The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
MARILYN MONROE I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.
MARILYN MONROE We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
MARILYN MONROE If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
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MARILYN MONROE It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
MARILYN MONROE I like to feel blonde all over.
MARILYN MONROE The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
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MARILYN MONROE I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
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MARILYN MONROE I've never dropped anyone I believed in.
MARILYN MONROE If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
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MARILYN MONROE It's all make believe, isn't it?
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MARILYN MONROE You know, most people really don't know me.
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MARILYN MONROE I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
MARILYN MONROE I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so.
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MARILYN MONROE Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
MARILYN MONROE Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
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MARILYN MONROE If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
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MARILYN MONROE Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady
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MARILYN MONROE A sex symbol becomes a thing.... I just hate to be a thing.
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MARILYN MONROE I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
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MARILYN MONROE Wise woman kisses, but doesn't love, listens, but doesn't believe, and leaves before she's left.
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MARILYN MONROE I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for ...
MARILYN MONROE I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot
MARILYN MONROE I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people ca...
MARILYN MONROE An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What i...
MARILYN MONROE We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
MARILYN MONROE I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and litt...
MARILYN MONROE The only person I know who is in worse shape than I am (on Montgomery Clift).
MARILYN MONROE She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know
MARILYN MONROE I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.
MARILYN MONROE When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I...
MARILYN MONROE All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.
MARILYN MONROE What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
MARILYN MONROE I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.
MARILYN MONROE I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much ali...
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