Marilyn Monroe Quotes

Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'

Marilyn Monroe

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• Smarter is always the answer.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
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• The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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• In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.

  

  Patrick Swayze
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• I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.

  

  Irrfan Khan
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• But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.

  

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• Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Work
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• Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • People
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• I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • You
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• Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • You
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• I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Up
  • Me
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• It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Doubt
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• I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Find
  • Answer
  • Worth

• There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
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• Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Age
  • Never
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• I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Guy
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• Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Never
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  • Intelligence

• Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
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  • Talent

• I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Money
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• Eddie waited 'til he finished high school, he went to Hollywood, got a tattoo.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • School
  • Hollywood
  • Tattoo

• My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.

  

  Geraldine Stutz
  • Talent
  • Atmosphere
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• Instead of squirreling away your earnings early in your career, spend on experiences that will enrich your life - like diving with great white sharks. It can expose you to influential people who could open doors for you.

  

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  • Career
  • Experiences
  • Expose

• You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Business
  • You
  • Know

• Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Talent
  • Hollywood
  • Answer