Marilyn Monroe quotes - page 12

I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me. (Marilyn Monroe)
Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results. View quote
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I've fallen in love with Brooklyn. I'm going to buy a little house in Brooklyn and live there. I'll go to the coast only when I have to make a picture. View quote
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I've always wanted a baby. View quote
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Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever. View quote
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Of the nude pictures Sure I posed. I needed the money. View quote
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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like. View quote
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My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50? View quote
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What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another? (Marilyn Monroe)
Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you. View quote
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I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It stirs up envy, fame does. View quote
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I've given pure sex appeal very little thought. If I had to think about it, I'm sure it would frighten me. View quote
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It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through &amp past the falls. View quote
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I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape. View quote
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When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. View quote
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I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking. (Marilyn Monroe)
Well behaved women rarely make history. View quote
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I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. I did sort of think, you know, marriage did that. You see, I was brought up differently from the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy - that's it, successful, happy, and on time. View quote
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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. View quote
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I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe' And I'd answer, 'Everything, everything,' and I'd walk slowly and turn my head slowly as if I were a queen. View quote
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