Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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I read poetry to save time.
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A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.
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Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?
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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 experience, but that's not where I live.
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My travels have always been of the same kind. No matter where I've gone or why I've gone there it ends up that I never see anything. Becoming a movie star is living on a merry-go-round. When you travel you take the merry-go-round with you. You don't see natives or new scenery. You see chiefly the same press agents, the same sort of interviewers, and the same picture layouts of yourself.
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I doubt if any doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry.
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A struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine.
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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...
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Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine.
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When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.
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I didn't pay much attention to the whistles and whoops, in fact, I didn't quite hear them. I was full of a strange feeling, as if I were two people. One of them was Norma Jeane from the orphanage who belonged to nobody; the other was someone whose name I didn't know. But I knew where she belonged; she belonged to the ocean and the sky and the whole world.
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People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.
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What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
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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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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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I want the world to see my body.
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Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
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I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
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I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.
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I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted.
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Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.
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I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
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Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.
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Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have.