Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
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Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?
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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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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.
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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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For life: It is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: The truth can only be recalled, never invented.
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(about her teen years) My admirers all said the same thing in different ways. It was my fault, their wanting to kiss and hug me.
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Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.
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In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.
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Wouldnt it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt... and not get emotionally involved?
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The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'
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There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.
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Sisters make the best friends in the world.
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Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.
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I believe in everything - a little bit.
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I never used to bother with exercises. Now I spend at least 10 minutes each morning working out with small weights.
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Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.
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I feel that beauty and femininity are ageless.
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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 have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.
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The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.
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We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
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When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.