Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
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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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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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It's all make believe, isn't it?
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A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.
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If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.
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There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.
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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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If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.
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By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition.
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If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
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You're the beautiful one. It's society that's ugly.
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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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Friends accept you the way you are.
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Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.
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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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Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart.
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Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
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I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
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There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.
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When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.
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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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This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.
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The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.