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Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER
What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
MARILYN MONROE
I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not pu...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.
CLAIRE BLOOM
The eyes of Stalin, the voice of Marilyn Monroe.
FRANCOIS MITTERAND
I'm kind of fixated with old Hollywood, like Marilyn Monroe.
EDY GANEM
Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER
I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe.
ANNA NICOLE SMITH
Marilyn Monroe? A vacuum with nipples
OTTO PREMINGER
By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.
ISSEY MIYAKE
There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Mon...
PARIS HILTON
Josephine caught my eye and gave me a signal we'd used for years to indicate that one of us had to l...
LEMONY SNICKET
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 love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very...
CARINE ROITFELD
From Marilyn Monroe to Madonna, that says it all.
GINA BROOKE
When you hire in business, you don't worry about marquee value.
SHAHID KHAN
You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.
ROD STEWART
I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that w...
DORIS ROBERTS
I think the world offers so many wonderful varieties of obstacles, but that shouldn't be one for...
DREW BARRYMORE
I don't worry about running myself ragged. I worry about being bored.
BRANTLEY GILBERT
The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.
HUGH HEFNER
My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t...
TERI GARR
People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, ...
JAMES EARL JONES
Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.
MARILYN MONROE
It's not as though a 17-year-old is going to know about Campbell's soup cans and Marilyn Monroe.
PETER SEALEY
I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.
ELIZABETH HURLEY
Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness...
RITA ORA
Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.
JOHN MADDEN
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irr...
FRAN LEBOWITZ
I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
CHARLIZE THERON
Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.
HAROLD WILSON
The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's am...
HUGH HEFNER
A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.
MARILYN MONROE
I've lived long enough to know that life doesn't always stick to the rules...The perfectly impossibl...
ELIZABETH WINDER
Women couldn’t identify with her and didn’t support her.
MOLLY HASKELL
He married Marilyn Monroe and that certainly didn't hurt his popularity at all.
DAVID HUNT
My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worr...
COLM MEANEY
Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movi...
MAMIE VAN DOREN
I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
MAMIE VAN DOREN
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 taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I wou...
KARIN SLAUGHTER
Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'...
MARILYN MANSON
You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.
ALAN SHEPARD
If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing b...
LEO BURNETT
What's distinctively shocking about Machiavelli is that he didn't care. He believed not only...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF
Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I...
SILVIA COLLOCA
Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
ICE CUBE
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ
The good thing about being pregnant is that I don't have to worry about sucking it in or dieting...
BUSY PHILIPPS
Marilyn Monroe and Vivienne Leigh are real icons of mine. In terms of visual culture, they are both ...
LILY COLE
I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that.
LIZA MINNELLI
I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I&...
DEMI LOVATO
Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
RAKUL PREET SINGH
Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of the...
OTTO PREMINGER
It's part of the mythology, which is: The place didn't exist before I got here. Back home, you were ...
TIM HODSON
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
JULIUS CAESAR
You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.
VINCE VAUGHN
What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the ri...
EVE ARNOLD
I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes ...
BETTY FORD
Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn...
TIBOR FISCHER
No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, ...
LARRY WILMORE
I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystiqu...
PIXIE LOTT
Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me...
BILLY WILDER
The ideal feminist world shouldn't be one where women suppress their human instincts for attenti...
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
LILY TOMLIN
I'm a real big Marilyn Manson fan. I get a lot of my styles from him. Not even musically - livin...
LIL UZI VERT
The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, &...
MARILYN MONROE
I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural a...
LORDE
[If Ryan left an indelible mark on the game, it was his] 46 ... like calling Marilyn Monroe just ano...
DOUG PLANK
I notice Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe get as much attention as Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Lo...
CLEO MOORE
There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations ...
GLORIA STEINEM
Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
BETTE MIDLER
Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
JULE STYNE
To write a book about Mickey Mantle and not to show people who he really was doesn’t make any sens...
PETER GOLENBOCK
Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a sma...
GLORIA STEINEM
That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. ...
MARILYN MONROE
The word 'success' - who's defining it? It's about whether or not it makes me feel g...
GRACE SLICK
I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I...
LAURA HADDOCK
Although it shouldn't be, men behaving badly is sort of an occupational hazard for those working...
KELLYANNE CONWAY
Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to m...
PAM FERRIS
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN
Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental proble...
REBECCA DE MORNAY
You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.
LEMONY SNICKET
On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in ...
VALENTINA TERESHKOVA
A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.
JEFF BEZOS
Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
SHANIA TWAIN
As we go over time, personalities like Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, these personalit...
MARK ROESLER
Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remembe...
MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS
If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he ...
JAMES SUROWIECKI
It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
ANUJ SOMANY
When I walk into a video arcade filled with 16- or 17-year-old boys, I may as well be Marilyn Monroe...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ...
C. JOYBELL C.
Love shouldn't play by the rules. It's all about chemistry.
RACHEL BILSON
When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You do...
NAS
I have a traditional Catholic personal position, but I am very strongly supportive that women should...
TIM KAINE
I look up to Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn and old styles. You will never see me in a crop top a...
ELLA HENDERSON
We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our famili...
MAYA ANGELOU

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Friends accept you the way you are.
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Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius and it is better to be absolutely ridiculous then absolutl...
MARILYN MONROE
I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.
MARILYN MONROE
...If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything...
MARILYN MONROE
If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monoton...
MARILYN MONROE
I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.
MARILYN MONROE
Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most importa...
MARILYN MONROE
(Joe) You’ve never heard such cheering,
MARILYN MONROE
I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I do...
MARILYN MONROE
That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd ...
MARILYN MONROE
There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will r...
MARILYN MONROE
I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times ha...
MARILYN MONROE
Wise woman kisses, but doesn't love, listens, but doesn't believe, and leaves before she's left.
MARILYN MONROE
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I'm just a girl who wishes for the world.
MARILYN MONROE
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I hav...
MARILYN MONROE
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
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...
MARILYN MONROE