Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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I've fallen in love with Brooklyn. I'm going to buy a little house in Brooklyn and live there. I'll go to the coast only when I have to make a picture.
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In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.
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As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.
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I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
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To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.
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I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me.
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Do not worry, and worry.
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Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'
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It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.
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When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.
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Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
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I've never liked the name Marilyn. I've often wished that I had held out that day for Jean Monroe. But I guess it's too late to do anything about it now.
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Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.
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I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.
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Wise girls kiss but never love, Listen but never believe, And leave befor they are left.
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Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.
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If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
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With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.
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It's all make believe, isn't it?
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There is a future, and I can't wait to get to it.
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The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.
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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.'
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I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
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I want to say to the people, if I am a star, the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did.