Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.
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People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.
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Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
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I feel that beauty and femininity are ageless.
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The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.
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I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.
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I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
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It stirs up envy, fame does. People you run into feel that, well, who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe? They feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothes not you.
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I hear you're looking for a sexy blonde to play with the Marx Brothers. Would you like to see me. I'm blonde and I'm sexy.
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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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Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.
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My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation - but I'm working on the foundation.
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Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy.
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Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.
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When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.
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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.
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This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth.
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I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.
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Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.
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I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.
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When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.
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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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Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
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President Kennedy is very democratic and very penetrating.