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Marilyn Monroe

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What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
MARILYN MONROE
I'm kind of fixated with old Hollywood, like Marilyn Monroe.
EDY GANEM
I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very...
CARINE ROITFELD
I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
MARILYN MONROE
I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not pu...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER
I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
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 want to be the new Marilyn Monroe.
ANNA NICOLE SMITH
Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me...
BILLY WILDER
Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monro...
BEYONCE KNOWLES
There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Mon...
PARIS HILTON
I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
CHARLIZE THERON
Marilyn Monroe? A vacuum with nipples
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Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental proble...
REBECCA DE MORNAY
I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.
ELIZABETH HURLEY
try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is.
MARILYN MONROE
From Marilyn Monroe to Madonna, that says it all.
GINA BROOKE
I'm very flirtatious, and I enjoy it.
KATE HUDSON
I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that.
LIZA MINNELLI
I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
MAMIE VAN DOREN
When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamor...
SALLY KIRKLAND
As an only child, I embrace loneliness. Hollywood loneliness helped to understand Marilyn Monroe in ...
CATHERINE HICKS
Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER
By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.
ISSEY MIYAKE
Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
SHANIA TWAIN
Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movi...
MAMIE VAN DOREN
I notice Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe get as much attention as Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Lo...
CLEO MOORE
I just feel a connection with Marilyn Monroe. I just love her. I just completely feel what she went ...
ANNA NICOLE SMITH
Some people say I'm not a very pretty woman, but I'm a very beautiful woman inside.
ANNE RAMSEY
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
The eyes of Stalin, the voice of Marilyn Monroe.
FRANCOIS MITTERAND
I'm definitely stereotyped, and I'm very okay with that.
DREA DE MATTEO
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
You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.
CLAIRE BLOOM
My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t...
TERI GARR
When I walk into a video arcade filled with 16- or 17-year-old boys, I may as well be Marilyn Monroe...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I'm a very independent woman.
FAITH HILL
I'm a very strong woman.
THALIA
He married Marilyn Monroe and that certainly didn't hurt his popularity at all.
DAVID HUNT
Part of me has always wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe or any Fifties Hollywood starlet. On screen, ...
KATHERINE RYAN
Definitely scatterbrained. I internalize a lot of thoughts, and sometimes it seems like I'm not ...
MAREN MORRIS
I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it sh...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.
HUGH HEFNER
I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweat...
ROSANNA ARQUETTE
I'm very determined, honest, open and definitely very energetic. I expect a lot as a boss and I&...
KIMORA LEE SIMMONS
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
You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a...
MAGGIE CAREY
I'm a real big Marilyn Manson fan. I get a lot of my styles from him. Not even musically - livin...
LIL UZI VERT
I was asked once if I ever got tired of playing bimbos, and I answered that I've never played a ...
MORGAN FAIRCHILD
I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.
MARILYN MANSON
I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ord...
KHALED HOSSEINI
Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness...
RITA ORA
Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'...
MARILYN MANSON
It's not as though a 17-year-old is going to know about Campbell's soup cans and Marilyn Monroe.
PETER SEALEY
I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I...
LAURA HADDOCK
I'm a very happy man. I've seen how bad it can get, and I'm sure it could get worse if I...
BRANTLEY GILBERT
I got a lot of influences. I got relevant influences today. I got influences that you wouldn't e...
LIL UZI VERT
What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the ri...
EVE ARNOLD
The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home,...
TAMSIN EGERTON
People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, ...
JAMES EARL JONES
The word 'success' - who's defining it? It's about whether or not it makes me feel g...
GRACE SLICK
My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will ne...
KATHERINE JENKINS
I have help, but I'm very hands-on in everything I do. I do normal stuff, I'm a normal mothe...
KIMORA LEE SIMMONS
I love Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, and Kurt Cobain. I really do. It doesn't matter what style ...
BEHATI PRINSLOO
I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out t...
ADAM LAMBERT
I internalize a lot of thoughts, and sometimes it seems like I'm not listening or totally zoned ...
MAREN MORRIS
I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have si...
EVANGELINE LILLY
I'm definitely aware that the physical appearance is a very temporary gift. I'm very thankfu...
MARISA MILLER
I'm definitely happy with the progression of my career. I'm glad I didn't jump to stardo...
BRITTANY CURRAN
[If Ryan left an indelible mark on the game, it was his] 46 ... like calling Marilyn Monroe just ano...
DOUG PLANK
I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I lik...
TAWNI O'DELL
I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would...
JOHN TRAVOLTA
The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, &...
MARILYN MONROE
I enjoy the acting, but I didn't plan on that. It fell into my lap, and I'm having a lot of ...
DAVID LABRAVA
I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
P. J. HARVEY
I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the ...
JASON DERULO
I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.
MARILYN MONROE
Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm go...
ELI WALLACH
I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most e...
TANITH LEE
I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international ph...
MELANIE BROWN
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
Vocally, I'm definitely pushing out more. That feels good. It's very freeing. I've alway...
CIARA
Tina Fey's autobiography is very, very funny and very well written. It's her life story: it&...
NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU
I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go...
TASHA SMITH
I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystiqu...
PIXIE LOTT
It's part of the mythology, which is: The place didn't exist before I got here. Back home, you were ...
TIM HODSON
I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own fo...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD
I woke up one day and wanted to change my look. And I was like, 'Okay, what are you going to do ...
CECE PENISTON
Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of the...
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A smart girl leaves before she is left.
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A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.
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I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
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A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. Sh...
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Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never comple...
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Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened...
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I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
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I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.
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I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
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The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn&...
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I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way,...
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I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
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It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feel...
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Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and w...
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The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
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Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't...
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What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
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It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.
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Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him t...
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I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!
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Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
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I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
MARILYN MONROE
Friends accept you the way you are.
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I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.
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Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive m...
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We should all start to live before we get too old.
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The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
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I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.
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We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
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If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
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I don't digest things with my mind.
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It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
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I like to feel blonde all over.
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The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
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A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
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When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.
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A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
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Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do...
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I've never dropped anyone I believed in.
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If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
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All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about m...
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It's all make believe, isn't it?
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My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick ...
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You know, most people really don't know me.
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I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
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One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females...
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I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
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I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so.
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Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
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Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
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I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.
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I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The gi...
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Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
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Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.
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Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've exper...
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No one ever called me pretty when I was a little girl
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It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
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When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I...
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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, ...
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Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
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It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
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I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, thing...
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Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
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If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
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A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
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The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or j...
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I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.
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All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.
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I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and c...
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It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.
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This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal t...
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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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It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.
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When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you trea...
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Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.
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Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
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A place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.
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Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives.
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I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
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I have been on a calendar, but never on time.
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Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging ...
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A sex symbol becomes a thing.... I just hate to be a thing.
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A career is born in public, talent in privacy.
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A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.
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Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
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I restore myself when I'm alone.
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A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength again...
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A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.
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Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
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Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
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I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
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When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.
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Who said nights were for sleep?
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I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up...
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I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.
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I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ...
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Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
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Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
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Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.
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Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for a...
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Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You g...
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I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
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I wish I knew why I am so anguished.
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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...
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A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.
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I defy gravity.
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A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.
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I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot...
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Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?
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Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision?
MARILYN MONROE
I've been on a calendar, but never on time.
MARILYN MONROE
I'm not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.
MARILYN MONROE
I don't mind living in a man's world as long as i can be a woman in it.
MARILYN MONROE
I'm going to be a great movie star some day.
MARILYN MONROE
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