If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
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If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere
MARILYN MONROE If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere.
MARILYN MONROE If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turne...
STEPHEN HAWKING If I'd been born ugly, you'd never have heard of Pele.
GEORGE BEST I never imagined myself doing a one-man show. If I'm going to do one, I'd rather do one that...
STEFFAN RHODRI If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship...
RAY BRADBURY I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that w...
DORIS ROBERTS If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.
HARRY S TRUMAN I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
KAGE BAKER I'm kind of fixated with old Hollywood, like Marilyn Monroe.
EDY GANEM I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You ...
EDITH EVANS I'd like to make over Marilyn Manson and just dress him really normally to see what he looks lik...
KAREN GILLAN I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
MAMIE VAN DOREN I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I&...
ROBERT B. PARKER I got to the point where I'd featured on songs; I'd done backing singing for major artists. ...
FLEUR EAST Part of me has always wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe or any Fifties Hollywood starlet. On screen, ...
KATHERINE RYAN If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did ques...
BILLY HIGGINS I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.
HAROLD RAMIS If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd go...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.
ELIZABETH HURLEY Before I was a mother, if I'd been photographed in a bikini, I'd have been mortified.
KATE WINSLET I think if I'd never had found pro wrestling, I'd be a blue collar guy, working a 9-to-5 job...
STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN If I'd been in a school play, I'd probably have sneezed and messed everything up.
MILLIE BOBBY BROWN I was asked once if I ever got tired of playing bimbos, and I answered that I've never played a ...
MORGAN FAIRCHILD I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. I never thought I'd be where I am. I never thought I'...
CAROL BARTZ Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I nev...
ORLANDO BLOOM If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three ...
RANDY PAUSCH If I never saw another airport again, I'd be happy!
EMM GRYNER I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the b...
JOAN CUSACK If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
EUBIE BLAKE Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me...
BILLY WILDER I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing...
JOHNNY BENCH If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never be...
DAVE BRUBECK As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. M...
SHAQUILLE O'NEAL I'd like to tidy up the entire planet. I would go anywhere if there were something that needs ti...
MARIE KONDO I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the o...
RACHEL NICHOLS I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says...
EDDIE MARSAN I recall my dad saying about me once that the only time he'd ever heard me say 'never' w...
BOB DIAMOND Maybe if I'd studied writing instead of anthropology, I'd be more sensible. You know - pick ...
MARY DORIA RUSSELL What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
MARILYN MONROE I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of pri...
DEAN KOONTZ I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe.
ANNA NICOLE SMITH I didn't do school plays... I've never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity...
MILLIE BOBBY BROWN When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a r...
JULIA CHILD If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good...
ELTON JOHN I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos ...
ACTION BRONSON I'd go to a bookstore, and I'd flip through flap copy, and I'd think, 'If this gal c...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON 'Triple D' is not going anywhere. I enjoy highlighting my brothers and sisters in the busine...
GUY FIERI I'd never have a facelift, as I have never seen one that looks good.
TRINNY WOODALL If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before ...
NOEL GALLAGHER Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
RITA RUDNER I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never...
NORAH JONES I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cr...
SETH MACFARLANE I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable i...
KATE BECKINSALE I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the do...
GEENA DAVIS I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d...
CHANNING TATUM I'd never hurt another person.
ADAM CAROLLA I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of ev...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not pu...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be...
DOLLY PARTON I'd always vaguely expected to outgrow my limitations. One day, I'd stop twisting my hair, a...
GRETCHEN RUBIN I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch ...
AL JOURGENSEN I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather mysel...
PAT SUMMITT I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this...
HEDY LAMARR I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'...
LANCE GROSS If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
SHERMAN ALEXIE People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.
ANNA KENDRICK If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.
DOUGLAS HORTON Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that...
DAMIEN HIRST I'd never go under the knife because I have a phobia of needles.
JASMINE GUINNESS If I had a great body, I'd be naked all the time.
CLAIRE FORLANI 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'd like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I'm like a teenager. I'd h...
CAROLINE RHEA I'd never want to be trapped. I never like to stay in one place too long. I always flit around, ...
MAISIE WILLIAMS No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you.
TOMMY LASORDA I'd perform in the mirror; I'd pretend to do interviews. I'd practice my autograph for h...
FLEUR EAST If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
AARON NEVILLE I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a ...
LAURA CARMICHAEL I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so h...
CHARLES KURALT Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit,...
BEAR BRYANT I wish I'd done 'Dumb and Dumber.' I was offered the part, but I don't think I'd...
WOODY HARRELSON I'd never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am.
DEAN SMITH From Marilyn Monroe to Madonna, that says it all.
GINA BROOKE When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to d...
BEN FALCONE The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, a...
J. K. ROWLING If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have b...
KIRSTEN DUNST I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.
KAREN MORLEY My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will ne...
KATHERINE JENKINS We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space...
JAMES LOVELOCK Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
SHANIA TWAIN I do have to say, there is this incredible benefit to being older. I never thought I'd say that....
JENNIFER COOLIDGE I'd never been published when I was young.
JACK VANCE All of my friends are really good dancers, which was initially why I never danced - we'd go out,...
CHET FAKER By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that peopl...
MARK SPITZ I remember when we were shooting 'Boogie Nights,' all of my stand-ins were wiping out all th...
HEATHER GRAHAM
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Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
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MARILYN MONROE A smart girl leaves before she is left.
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MARILYN MONROE Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened...
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MARILYN MONROE I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way,...
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MARILYN MONROE Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and w...
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.
MARILYN MONROE Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him t...
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.
MARILYN MONROE Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive m...
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.
MARILYN MONROE Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absol...
MARILYN MONROE I don't digest things with my mind.
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.
MARILYN MONROE A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
MARILYN MONROE 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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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.
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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.
MARILYN MONROE I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
MARILYN MONROE One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females...
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.
MARILYN MONROE Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up...
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.
MARILYN MONROE I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.
MARILYN MONROE The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, &...
MARILYN MONROE I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The gi...
MARILYN MONROE Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
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MARILYN MONROE No one ever called me pretty when I was a little girl
MARILYN MONROE It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
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MARILYN MONROE Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
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MARILYN MONROE I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, thing...
MARILYN MONROE Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
MARILYN MONROE If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
MARILYN MONROE A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
MARILYN MONROE 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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MARILYN MONROE We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this na...
MARILYN MONROE All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.
MARILYN MONROE I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and c...
MARILYN MONROE Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your so...
MARILYN MONROE 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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MARILYN MONROE I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and wh...
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 Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.
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MARILYN MONROE Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So...
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MARILYN MONROE I have been on a calendar, but never on time.
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MARILYN MONROE A sex symbol becomes a thing.... I just hate to be a thing.
MARILYN MONROE A career is born in public, talent in privacy.
MARILYN MONROE A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.
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MARILYN MONROE It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling pass...
MARILYN MONROE Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
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MARILYN MONROE Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy...
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MARILYN MONROE Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasti...
MARILYN MONROE Dogs never bite me - just humans.
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MARILYN MONROE Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
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MARILYN MONROE I restore myself when I'm alone.
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MARILYN MONROE A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.
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MARILYN MONROE 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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MARILYN MONROE Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
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MARILYN MONROE I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
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MARILYN MONROE I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!
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MARILYN MONROE A smart girl leaves before she is left
MARILYN MONROE Who said nights were for sleep?
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MARILYN MONROE I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up...
MARILYN MONROE I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.
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MARILYN MONROE Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
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MARILYN MONROE No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're p...
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MARILYN MONROE Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You g...
MARILYN MONROE I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
MARILYN MONROE I wish I knew why I am so anguished.
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MARILYN MONROE A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.
MARILYN MONROE I defy gravity.
MARILYN MONROE A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.
MARILYN MONROE I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot...
MARILYN MONROE Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?
MARILYN MONROE 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,
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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...
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