Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
Marilyn Monroe
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Caviar's sexy.
ERIN HEATHERTON If you have caviar, the way to eat it is by the spoonful. Don't combine it with shrimp, pomegran...
RUTH REICHL Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat i...
LEE LOEVINGER Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER I'd rather have a hot dog than caviar.
JUAN PABLO MONTOYA Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, ...
FRANCIS BACON Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
ERICA JONG I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when some...
BILL DICKEY All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my lif...
LARRY DAVID Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Potatoes have much more staying power than caviar.
MARK HELPRIN When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You k...
NANCY REAGAN Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
NOEL COWARD Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it around like marmelade.
SIR NOEL COWARD Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
NOEL COWARD Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade
NOEL COWARD I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't ...
K. D. LANG I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn...
STEPHEN KING What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
MARILYN MONROE When you have tough times, and when you learn you can't be perfect in every situation, it's ...
ANA IVANOVIC Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER My most memorable meal was with my parents at Joel Robuchon's Restaurant Jamin in Paris. It was ...
ALEX GUARNASCHELLI It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day.
KATHIE LEE GIFFORD My favorite snack is caviar.
KELSEY GRAMMER If someone finds caviar that it is too cheap, then it is probably illegal.
ELLEN PIKITCH When I go out, I love steak and caviar.
CAMERON DIAZ Reality is not so georgeous, it's like a meal you had and you miss that meal and when you find it yo...
ARDIT BALISHA Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON Why be greedy when you can have it all.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Fame, you know, it's like a handgun - in the wrong hands, it's dangerous.
MATTHEW MORRISON If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it.
DEYTH BANGER Bores to themselves, to others caviar
PHAEDRUS There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Mon...
PARIS HILTON Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. ...
GENE SIMMONS I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe...
JOYCE CAROL OATES The word 'success' - who's defining it? It's about whether or not it makes me feel g...
GRACE SLICK Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it ...
LEE LOEVINGER I'm kind of fixated with old Hollywood, like Marilyn Monroe.
EDY GANEM Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams.
ELLEN SIMON From Marilyn Monroe to Madonna, that says it all.
GINA BROOKE I like bowling. I suck at it, but I like it. You know what's so funny? I have days when I'm ...
LIL' KIM Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not pu...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I'm Russian: I'm into men, diamonds, and caviar.
IRINA SHAYK A good meal is very important to me. When I have a bad meal, especially out, it's like I'm s...
JOSH ELLIOTT When you photograph someone, you have to make them feel good, and you know that they want to look go...
FRANCOIS NARS You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.
CLAIRE BLOOM I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international ph...
MELANIE BROWN What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the ri...
EVE ARNOLD Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of the...
OTTO PREMINGER The Russian caviar industry, their sturgeon fishery has been exploited. It wasn't monitored correctl...
DENNY WEISS Every violinist has a different style, so it's important to be able to recognise their styles. Y...
RUGGIERO RICCI It's not as though a 17-year-old is going to know about Campbell's soup cans and Marilyn Monroe.
PETER SEALEY If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then i...
PAUL MOONEY ...Okay... probably now you have read all my books up to now..., you have check out everything what ...
DEYTH BANGER You have to be good , you know? You have to have your manager feel that he needs to put you in the l...
ERIC BYRNES As we go over time, personalities like Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, these personalit...
MARK ROESLER It's hard for people to get their hands around fame, because it's heady stuff, and you have ...
GEORGE HAMILTON I have a disgracefully sweet tooth. My younger brother and I, all we care about are puddings. You ca...
DONALD SINDEN Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
BETTE MIDLER Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
JULE STYNE Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you h...
CHARLES POLLOCK It's a rare thing when you read a role and have this immediate ownership over it, you have this ...
FRAN KRANZ Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'...
MARILYN MANSON I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star....
KRISTEN STEWART I quite enjoy fame, especially when you go to conventions in America where they treat you like a god...
SYLVESTER MCCOY It's somewhat of a normal procedure sometimes when you have a knee drained... so long as it'...
JAMES WORTHY It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.
DANNY BOYLE A good trick I learnt early on is not to immediately look at playback because once you know the shot...
AIDAN TURNER The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to...
FRAN LEBOWITZ When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good...
MARILYN MANSON I have new bodyguards ever since I got a TV show. I didn't know, but it's a lot like becomin...
SCOTT AUKERMAN Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.
WILLIAM E. GEIST When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. ...
AMY POEHLER This is a major victory in the war against caviar criminals.
JIM ARMSTRONG I love soup 'cause I don't like to cook. It's so easy to prepare, and it fills you up an...
CARRIE ANN INABA Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yo...
HANNAH TOINTON Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
SHANIA TWAIN Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on s...
BEN E. KING I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it sh...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when...
ELTON JOHN I am very organic; I eat a lot of seeds. At home in the morning, I eat muesli with a banana. At noon...
CLOTILDE HESME Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.
JOHN CORBETT The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, &...
MARILYN MONROE Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not ne...
EMMA THOMPSON What it's like to be me? You know, it's good to be me. My life is good.
CONOR MCGREGOR You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson...
DEYTH BANGER Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.
LUDWIG BEMELMANS It's like drinking water. You have to have water every day, and music is like water for me.
TROMBONE SHORTY We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. W...
BORIS YELTSIN With singing, the name of the game is to make yourself believable. When somebody hears you sing a so...
RAY CHARLES But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose we...
CLAIRE DANES 'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, ...
IRA GLASS I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
MAMIE VAN DOREN It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of sh...
ADAM CLAYTON The difference between the American version of 'Live Aid' and the British one - in England, ...
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listens, but doesn't believe, and leaves
before she's left.
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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...
MARILYN MONROE