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Marilyn Monroe

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Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is very tired, hurt and bewildered.
CLARA BOW I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it sh...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
BETTE MIDLER Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
JULE STYNE Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
SHANIA TWAIN Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?
TERRY JOHNSON Give a girl the right shoes and she'll conquer the world.
ANONYMOUS I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe.
ANNA NICOLE SMITH From Marilyn Monroe to Madonna, that says it all.
GINA BROOKE It's not as though a 17-year-old is going to know about Campbell's soup cans and Marilyn Monroe.
PETER SEALEY He married Marilyn Monroe and that certainly didn't hurt his popularity at all.
DAVID HUNT As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris an...
ALI SMITH Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me...
BILLY WILDER I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.
ELIZABETH HURLEY Marilyn Monroe? A vacuum with nipples
OTTO PREMINGER You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.
CLAIRE BLOOM When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamor...
SALLY KIRKLAND Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous....
BILLY WILDER wanted to know.” “It’s better not to know. It’s better never to know. Better to leave things...
AGATHA CHRISTIE 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 I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
MAMIE VAN DOREN What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as i...
MITCH ALBOM The eyes of Stalin, the voice of Marilyn Monroe.
FRANCOIS MITTERAND If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
GARY F EVANS... There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ...
ROALD DAHL Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that.
LIZA MINNELLI Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT I wanted to be a sex goddess. And you can laugh all you want to. The joke is on me, whether you laug...
ROBERT PATRICK 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 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 wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I...
LAURA HADDOCK I notice Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe get as much attention as Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Lo...
CLEO MOORE If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States ca...
CARLOS FUENTES it's always good to know that you have been the best even though deep inside you know you will never...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of the...
OTTO PREMINGER What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
MARILYN MONROE I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe...
JOYCE CAROL OATES The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's sa...
ANNE SEXTON As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyo...
CLIVE JAMES I look up to Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn and old styles. You will never see me in a crop top a...
ELLA HENDERSON Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in ...
RIP TORN Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite.
PROVERB Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking th...
MARILYN MANSON Now we all know that Fidel Castro dressed up like Marilyn Monroe and gave JFK a case of syphilis so ...
STEPHEN COLBERT Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON It’s better to be a “misfit” than a “one-size-fits-all”!
MANDY HALE It's an honor to be a part of such a legendary group of stars representing Max Factor, such as Rita ...
CARMEN ELECTRA And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different...
CRAIG GROESCHEL IMESHO (In My Ever So Humble Opinion:) women use food and sex as weapons, or at least for leverage i...
KEN O. ELDIB As we go over time, personalities like Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, these personalit...
MARK ROESLER As an only child, I embrace loneliness. Hollywood loneliness helped to understand Marilyn Monroe in ...
CATHERINE HICKS I'm kind of fixated with old Hollywood, like Marilyn Monroe.
EDY GANEM I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
CHARLIZE THERON The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.
HUGH HEFNER Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT They bring instant recognition to a campaign. Whether it's a print or a television one, when you sho...
MARK ROESLER A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE 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 Better to be known for something than be forgotten for nothing.
JOHN HEGARTY If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turne...
STEPHEN HAWKING You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the w...
LIBBA BRAY Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you w...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I don’t know what to do,” he said. “No harm in that. I’ve never known what to do,” said Ri...
TERRY PRATCHETT The Boy looked at him for a long time before responding. “Well, as long as you’re my friend, I�...
MIKE RESNICK Tomorrow will be better.”
“But what if it’s not?” I asked.
“Then you say it agai...
MORGAN MATSON Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness...
RITA ORA Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as l...
JODI PICOULT To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use...
HYPATIA i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL Better to be paid your debt in bits,than never to be paid at all.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never ...
DENIS JOHNSON What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev...
MARIE LU Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love a...
GERMANY KENT For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s ea...
JOHN SCALZI Spartans were known for never retreating. It was better to die on the battle field than to retreat.
RON PIKE Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiin...
SPALDING GRAY To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the ri...
EVE ARNOLD It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.
CAMPBELL BROWN To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international ph...
MELANIE BROWN The girls know that on any given day they have to be ready to go because you never know. Somebody co...
BRIAN METCALF I don’t know if it’s possible to take hate away from people. Not even people like us, who’ve s...
JENNIFER BROWN Thank you Earth for I've never known a better friend
KEHINDE SONOLA Never regret taking a chance, even if you fall on your face; It's better to know you tried and faile...
DEVIN FRYE Nicole Kidman in particular seems to bring out the butt-kisser in the sassiest of hackettes, as they...
JULIE BURCHILL Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'...
MARILYN MANSON Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all.
THOMAS CAMPBELL Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pret...
JODI PICOULT

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MARILYN MONROE A smart girl leaves before she is left.
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MARILYN MONROE An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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MARILYN MONROE Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
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MARILYN MONROE If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
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MARILYN MONROE I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.
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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...
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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 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.
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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 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 A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.
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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 I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up...
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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 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.
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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.
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MARILYN MONROE I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.
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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.
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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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