Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

Marilyn Monroe

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• I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Help
  • Pretty
  • Me

• When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • People
  • Great
  • Joy

• Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Movies
  • Dreams
  • Makeup

• If I wasn't an actress, I'd never wear make up. I liked being ready in half an hour and arrive on the sets. Even for a no-makeup look, if one has a dark under-eye on a particular day, a little makeup is used. I had no scope for that as well.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Up
  • Day
  • Dark

• The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • May
  • End
  • Smile

• I've gotten used to the point where I'm so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup and be tougher!

  

  Maggie Q
  • Like
  • Makeup
  • Where

• I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.

  

  Ofra Haza
  • God
  • Done
  • Power

• My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Work
  • Children
  • Husband

• I can't change my personality. I'll always smile, but I'll be more focused.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Change
  • Personality
  • Smile

• I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Life
  • Different
  • Trying

• I think there's a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • People
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• I like to make the best of what I have. I'm not a supermodel, clearly. I'm not a makeup artist. I'm a real woman.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Real
  • Best
  • Woman

• After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Health
  • Husband
  • Smile

• I get accused of having a haughty smugness. I have a lopsided mouth. I can't help it. I was born with it. It looks as if I am smirking. I have had my publicist tell me, 'Don't do that smile on the red carpet.' I'm, like, 'That's my smile.'

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Smile
  • Smugness
  • Lopsided Mouth

• As I got older, I became so self conscious about my birthmark that I was very hesitant about going to a pool party, because I didn't want my makeup to rub off.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Party
  • Makeup
  • Self

• You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline - flexibility, fitness, knowledge. And you have to do it with a big smile on your face. Also, I once performed in front of 10,000 screaming women. I tell you something, I'd rather do that than kick a ball around in front of a few men.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Men
  • Women
  • Knowledge

• I've been using makeup since I was ten years old. I've learned a lot of do's and don'ts over the years. But one would definitely be that you should do your makeup for the occasion.

  

  Becky G
  • You
  • Years
  • Makeup

• For my everyday look, I don't like going anywhere without eye makeup.

  

  Becky G
  • Eye
  • Everyday
  • Makeup

• Unlike the time sink of binge-watching a TV series, podcasts actually made me more efficient. Practically every dull activity - folding laundry, applying makeup - became tolerable when I did it while listening to a country singer describing his hardscrabble childhood, or a novelist defending her open marriage.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Time
  • Country
  • Marriage

• Kublai noticed this uncommon perception that Marco Polo has, with the idea to explain and talk about his country so vividly that he can see it.

  

  Benedict Wong
  • Country
  • Perception

• Blending kids, ex-spouses, money and investment styles -- each one of them requires its own strategy.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Strategy

• A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • God
  • Truth
  • Wisdom

• Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Smile
  • Makeup
  • Wishes