Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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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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Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire.
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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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Jewish men don't know anything.
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Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
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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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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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It's all make believe, isn't it?
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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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When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.
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It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again. But I believe you’re always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. Fame will go by, and, so long, I’ve had you fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.
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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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Beneath the makeup & behind the smile I'm just the girl who wishes for the world. A wise girl kisses, but doesn't love. Listens but dosen't believe. And leaves before she is left. If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything. It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
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The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
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There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.
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When it gets hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the ice box.
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I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.
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I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.
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The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.
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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'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.
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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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I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.
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Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.