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No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.


Marilyn Monroe

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PAT BENATAR I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.
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KENNY BAKER I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow...
PAT CONROY For 'A.D.,' when I got the script, I was really moved, because even though it told a story t...
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DAKOTA JOHNSON When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better ti...
ROBERT REDFORD I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.
ELIZABETH HURLEY I once told a journalist that girls call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarc...
JOAQUIN PHOENIX If you're a girl, you're always Daddy's little girl. You're vulnerable, no matter ho...
DONNA BRAZILE When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now ...
YOUNG JEEZY When I was up in Washington state, I always thought, 'I'm going to go to Los Angeles where f...
BYRON HOWARD A nutritionist has told me to have very little butter and very little spices, but I can't live l...
JILL SCOTT I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're bein...
SEAN PENN I told the team I was going for two laps if I didn't get everything on the first one. I ran it again...
RYAN NEWMAN When I was a child growing up in Maine, one of my favorite things to do was to look for sand dollars...
SARAH PARCAK I was told I was fat in the modeling world, and a director on a shoot told me I needed to lose weigh...
COCO AUSTIN When they stood up and I stayed where I was, he asked me if I was going to stand and I told him that...
ROSA PARKS No one's ever told me I needed to get a facelift or anything.
KRISTIN CAVALLARI My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid - and I didn't read magazines or watc...
CAMERON RUSSELL I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an...
OLESYA RULIN What I think is great style advice that people have told me is that people who are confident look be...
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that s...
BILLY CONNOLLY What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
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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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