Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
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I love to do the things the censors won't pass.
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In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life.
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First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
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Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity... If fame goes by, 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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The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
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Within crisis, are the seeds of opportunity.
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That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.
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The studio people want me to do 'Good-bye Charlie' for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.
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My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!
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I restore myself when I'm alone.
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Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?
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I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
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Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle.
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A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of.
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If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.
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I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
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I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.
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The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.
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Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.
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I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.
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Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose money had bought the studio. It was an art that transformed you into somebody else, that increased your life and mind. I had always loved acting and tried hard to learn it. But with Michael Chekhov, acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.
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A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
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Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.