Mamie Van Doren Quotes

#1. I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.

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#2. I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.

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#3. Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.

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#4. I've never acted my age and I never will. It's just the way I've always been.

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#5. My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

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#6. I've married a few people I shouldn't have, but haven't we all?

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#7. I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.

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#8. Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent wants them to by subtler means, but a way of life, a way of living with children with real respect for their intelligence and for their being.

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#9. I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!

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#10. I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

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#11. It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

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#12. He's the type of man who will end up dying in his own arms.

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#13. I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

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