Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty.
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All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'
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Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?
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We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.
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I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.
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The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
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I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.
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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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I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker.
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Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all.
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If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?
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If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best.
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Do not worry, and worry.
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I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.
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I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.
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You know, most people really don't know me.
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What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.
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I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
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The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
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Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
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I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
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That’s the way you feel when you’re beaten inside. You don’t feel angry at those who’ve beaten you. You just feel ashamed.
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Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes.
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The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.