Marilyn Monroe quotes - page 11

I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous. (Marilyn Monroe)
I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane. View quote
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A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever. View quote
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For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother. View quote
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The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves. View quote
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Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.' View quote
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When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy. View quote
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There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!' View quote
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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. View quote
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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty. View quote
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They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic. (Marilyn Monroe)
I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so. View quote
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You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way. View quote
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When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep. View quote
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You know, most people really don't know me. View quote
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There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you. View quote
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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. View quote
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All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.' View quote
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Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary. View quote
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What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman? View quote
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The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it. (Marilyn Monroe)
I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have. View quote
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Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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