Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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I love to do the things the censors won't pass.
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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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In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life.
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The truth can only be recalled, never invented.
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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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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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I like to feel blonde all over.
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I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.
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Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?
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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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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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That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.
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I restore myself when I'm alone.
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Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.
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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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A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don't put into it!
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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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The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.
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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 remember when I got the part in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Jane Russell - she was the brunette in it and I was the blonde. She got $200,000 for it, and I got my $500 a week, but that to me was, you know, considerable. She, by the way, was quite wonderful to me. The only thing was I couldn't get a dressing room. Finally, I really got to this kind of level and I said, "Look, after all, I am the blonde, and it is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes!" Because still they always kept saying, "Remember, you're not a star." I said, "Well, whatever I am, I am the blonde!
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I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
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Sisters make the best friends in the world.
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Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.
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If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.