Top 100 Marilyn Monroe Quotes
#2. Ever since I became a movie star,I've been really weird.
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#4. Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one.
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#5. There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos.
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#6. I never used to bother with exercises. Now I spend at least 10 minutes each morning working out with small weights
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#7. 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.
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#8. 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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#10. An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
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#11. Wise girls kiss but never love
Listen but never believe
And leave befor they are left
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#12. I doubt if any doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry.
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#14. When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.
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#15. I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
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#16. Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??
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#17. I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember?
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#18. I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could
love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.
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#19. Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire.
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#20. I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!
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#21. I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.
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#22. If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.
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#23. For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.
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#24. By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition
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#25. Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.
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#26. Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous
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#28. If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.
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#29. I've found out it's fun to go shopping. It's such a feminine thing to do.
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#30. I'm trying to find myself. Sometimes it's not that easy.
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#33. Fame will go by and, 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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#34. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
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#36. Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?
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#37. If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best.
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#38. Maybe I'll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.
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#39. Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.
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#40. We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.
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#41. My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!
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#42. I always felt I was a nobody, and the only way for me to be somebody was to be - well, somebody else. Which is probably why I wanted to act.
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#43. I have never liked sex. I do not think I ever will. It just seems the opposite of love.
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#44. Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
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#45. It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.
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#46. Don't let your fear of failing triumph over the joy of participating.
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#47. Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy.
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#48. It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.
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#49. Enjoy the fact that you're a woman and men will enjoy it too.
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#51. The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.
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#52. I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch.
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#54. I'm the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream.
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#55. Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.
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#56. I have too many fantasies to be a housewife ... I guess I am a fantasy.
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#57. When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
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#58. I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
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#59. A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
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#61. After all, all we demanded was a right to twinkle.
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#62. A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don't put into it!
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#63. Try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is.
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#65. In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.
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#66. Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.
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#67. 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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#68. The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy.
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#69. There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.
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#70. I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
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#71. I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.
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#73. She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that's important - you know
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#74. Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.
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#75. Men are climbing to the moon, but they don't seem interested in the beating human heart.
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#76. What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course
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#77. For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.
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#79. The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
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#80. When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.
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#81. A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.
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#82. You're the beautiful one. It's society that's ugly.
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#84. Don't stop when you're tired; stop when you're done.
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#85. At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.
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#86. When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.
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#87. You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.
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#88. Sex is nature, and I
believe in going along
with nature.
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#89. The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.
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#90. Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.
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#91. First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
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#92. Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.
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#93. If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
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#95. Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'
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#96. You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.
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#97. To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one, its society who's ugly.
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#98. I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
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#99. I hear you're looking for a sexy blonde to play with the Marx Brothers. Would you like to see me. I'm blonde and I'm sexy.
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#100. Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered ... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.
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