Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.
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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.
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We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.
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Do not worry, and worry.
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This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping the child to them, they start punishing the child. Like you don't dare get a cold. How dare you get a cold! I mean, the executives can get colds and stay home forever and phone it in, but how dare you, the actor, get a cold or a virus. You know, no one feels worse than the one who's sick. I sometimes wish, gee, I wish they had to act a comedy with a temperature and a virus infection.
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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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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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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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Next to my husband and along with Marlon Brando, Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.
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It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.
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My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.
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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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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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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 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've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me.
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There is a future, and I can't wait to get to it.
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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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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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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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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.
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I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
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Wise girls kiss but never love, Listen but never believe, And leave befor they are left.
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When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.