Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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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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Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
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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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Always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie?
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I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.
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People always ask me if I believe diamonds are a girl's best friend. Frankly, I don't.
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In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself, what's the good of being anything at all?
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It stirs up envy, fame does.
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Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.
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Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.
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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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My heart belongs to daddy.
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I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
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Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.
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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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Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.
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I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
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When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.
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It's all make believe, isn't it?
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I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
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There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.
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I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.
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I think cheesecake helps call attention to you. Then you can follow through and prove yourself.
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Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.