Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.
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I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.
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I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to.
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There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.
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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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I read poetry to save time.
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What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?
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Wise girls kiss but never love, Listen but never believe, And leave befor they are left.
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Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??
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Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
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As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together.
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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 don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.
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I want to say to the people, if I am a star, the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did.
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You know, most people really don't know me.
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The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.
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The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex.... Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges.
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I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.
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I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker.
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I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me.
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I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.
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When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.
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Who said nights were for sleep?
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Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.