It's all make believe, isn't it?
Marilyn Monroe
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Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
MARILYN MONROE Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'...
MARILYN MANSON From Marilyn Monroe to Madonna, that says it all.
GINA BROOKE You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.
CLAIRE BLOOM Let's use some codes every word which isn't there or sound some kind non-sense, let's put it a code ...
DEYTH BANGER I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not pu...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
TRUMAN CAPOTE I'm kind of fixated with old Hollywood, like Marilyn Monroe.
EDY GANEM Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
WILLIAM GOLDMAN I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Off, end this lies it's not awesome. Please take this crap, second very clever and smart, but I want...
DEYTH BANGER I look at him and realize, maybe I overreacted. Maybe more than once.
LISA SCHROEDER I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that w...
DORIS ROBERTS It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't ...
IMELDA STAUNTON The word 'success' - who's defining it? It's about whether or not it makes me feel g...
GRACE SLICK Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
PRINCESS DIANA The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, &...
MARILYN MONROE A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.
JENNIFER ANISTON What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your be...
LEA DELARIA I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music i...
CASS MCCOMBS It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't ...
RONALD REAGAN Isn't it ironic that a nightmare can masquerade as a dream?
KEN POIROT I don't believe that you have a work life and a home life. I believe that you have one life, and...
SRIKUMAR RAO My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t...
TERI GARR Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it?
ALEX TURNER Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintert...
LINUS TORVALDS I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?
NIGEL FARAGE Plastic surgery can't make you younger or more beautiful, because beauty is in your eyes, isn...
SARAH PARISH It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.
ZAKK WYLDE Life isn't fair, and it isn't government's job to make life fair. But if you're not ...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international ph...
MELANIE BROWN Marilyn Monroe? A vacuum with nipples
OTTO PREMINGER Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
MALORIE BLACKMAN Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
EDNA FERBER Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.
DYLAN THOMAS Multiculturalism isn't about culture, it's about power.
NTOZAKE SHANGE This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.
ERICH SEGAL Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
VINCE LOMBARDI The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.
DAVID FRUM I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Love is agony, isn't it? I've been involved with someone for some time now, but it's all...
DAPHNE GUINNESS Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.
ALICE WATERS Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life i...
MARY OLIVER Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn...
BERNARD CORNWELL Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER I had to agree with one ex-boyfriend of one crackhead complainant who'd gone missing, when he told m...
EDWARD CONLON It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY He married Marilyn Monroe and that certainly didn't hurt his popularity at all.
DAVID HUNT 'Moonlight' isn't an issue film. It's not about addiction, it's not about sexual...
BARRY JENKINS Well, I believe that when you are confirming a United States Supreme Court Justice, that it really i...
ARLEN SPECTER Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.
BEN SHAPIRO Pink isn't just a color, it's an attitude!
MILEY CYRUS We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth...
VAL KILMER Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight ...
FRED HOYLE Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.
FLEA There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Mon...
PARIS HILTON It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be...
AKON Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes...
JOHN MADDEN One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe'...
CLIFFORD ODETS An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
DON MARQUIS Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Let us swell with gratitude and allow it to overwhelm us. It isn't as cliche as we make it; life...
GRACE GEALEY Training isn't fun for me. I do it because it's what my body needs, and I have a standard. I...
GIANCARLO STANTON It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
ERROL FLYNN What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
OTTO PREMINGER While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too man...
GABOUREY SIDIBE On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.
P. J. O'ROURKE That's all there is; there isn't any more.
ETHEL BARRYMORE Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
JACKIE SPEIER Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
OSCAR LEVANT Change isn't a scary thing. It's constant and inevitable.
ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. Chivalry isn't dead. It's just no longer gender-based.
LETITIA BALDRIGE Twitter isn't a social network, it's an information network.
EVAN WILLIAMS The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.
DAVID HOCKNEY Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.
BILLY IDOL It's great isn't it, all this exercise lark? I used to laugh at people on treadmills; now I ...
RICHARD DESMOND So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family enviro...
STEVEN PINKER By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.
ISSEY MIYAKE I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe.
ANNA NICOLE SMITH You've got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it's all pretty ridicul...
CAT DEELEY I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I wou...
KARIN SLAUGHTER It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
DAN SIMMONS I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it...
CHARLES DE LINT It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side?
MICHAEL FASSBENDER Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessa...
JANIS JOPLIN We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?
CHARLES OLSON I think there's a preoccupation with the American market to make excuses and justify its past. I...
LEON REDBONE Gamer humor ranges all over the place. What it comes down to is taking a lot of what we see in gamin...
FREDDIE WONG I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES What I do isn't black music; it's just my music.
DARYL HALL A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn'...
WATKIN TUDOR JONES Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?
RIDLEY SCOTT So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.
RICHARD O'BRIEN
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Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
MARILYN MONROE Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fi...
MARILYN MONROE Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've ...
MARILYN MONROE Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wi...
MARILYN MONROE A smart girl leaves before she is left.
MARILYN MONROE How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.
MARILYN MONROE First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself ...
MARILYN MONROE An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
MARILYN MONROE To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on ...
MARILYN MONROE A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.
MARILYN MONROE I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. lik...
MARILYN MONROE It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit...
MARILYN MONROE There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it w...
MARILYN MONROE I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
MARILYN MONROE A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. Sh...
MARILYN MONROE Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never comple...
MARILYN MONROE Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened...
MARILYN MONROE I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
MARILYN MONROE I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.
MARILYN MONROE I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
MARILYN MONROE The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn&...
MARILYN MONROE I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way,...
MARILYN MONROE I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
MARILYN MONROE It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feel...
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.
MARILYN MONROE A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
MARILYN MONROE I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
MARILYN MONROE Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do...
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.
MARILYN MONROE All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about m...
MARILYN MONROE My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick ...
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.
MARILYN MONROE Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.
MARILYN MONROE Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've exper...
MARILYN MONROE To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the ...
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.
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 In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, ...
MARILYN MONROE Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
MARILYN MONROE It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
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...
MARILYN MONROE I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.
MARILYN MONROE A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night
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.
MARILYN MONROE This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal t...
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
MARILYN MONROE It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.
MARILYN MONROE When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you trea...
MARILYN MONROE I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting ...
MARILYN MONROE Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.
MARILYN MONROE Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
MARILYN MONROE Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutel...
MARILYN MONROE If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.
MARILYN MONROE I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times har...
MARILYN MONROE The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has a cleavage; they ought to worry if she has...
MARILYN MONROE Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolute...
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...
MARILYN MONROE A place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.
MARILYN MONROE Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives.
MARILYN MONROE I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
MARILYN MONROE I have been on a calendar, but never on time.
MARILYN MONROE Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging ...
MARILYN MONROE The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn'...
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.
MARILYN MONROE I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, "There must be thousands of girls sitting al...
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.
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 Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'...
MARILYN MONROE Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy...
MARILYN MONROE When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.
MARILYN MONROE Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for you...
MARILYN MONROE I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sittin...
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.
MARILYN MONROE Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.
MARILYN MONROE Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I g...
MARILYN MONROE Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
MARILYN MONROE I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square ...
MARILYN MONROE The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - ...
MARILYN MONROE Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturer...
MARILYN MONROE I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few rema...
MARILYN MONROE I restore myself when I'm alone.
MARILYN MONROE It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
MARILYN MONROE A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength again...
MARILYN MONROE A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.
MARILYN MONROE Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel li...
MARILYN MONROE Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
MARILYN MONROE I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at t...
MARILYN MONROE Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
MARILYN MONROE No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they'...
MARILYN MONROE I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
MARILYN MONROE When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.
MARILYN MONROE Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what...
MARILYN MONROE I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!
MARILYN MONROE There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's al...
MARILYN MONROE A smart girl leaves before she is left
MARILYN MONROE Who said nights were for sleep?
MARILYN MONROE Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and a...
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.
MARILYN MONROE What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody:...
MARILYN MONROE I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ...
MARILYN MONROE Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
MARILYN MONROE Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
MARILYN MONROE Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.
MARILYN MONROE I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but ...
MARILYN MONROE Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I sa...
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...
MARILYN MONROE Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for a...
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.
MARILYN MONROE 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...
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,
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...
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