Marilyn Monroe quotes - page 7

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself--for survival and living day to day with what comes up. (Marilyn Monroe)
I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror. View quote
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I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people. View quote
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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. View quote
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Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity... If fame goes by, 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 experienced, but that's not where I live. View quote
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I don't know who invented the high heel, but all women owe him a lot. Excuse the pun, but it was the high heel that gave a big lift to my own career. View quote
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A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself. View quote
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I restore myself when I'm alone. View quote
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Sometimes I've been to a party where noone spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweetie. The ladies would gang up in a corner and discuss my dangerous character. View quote
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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. View quote
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Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity... (Marilyn Monroe)
If I'm a star, then the people made me a star. View quote
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Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it. View quote
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A career is born in public -- talent in privacy. View quote
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Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced them both. View quote
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It's nice to be included in people's fantasies, but you also like to be accepted for your own sake. View quote
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An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everyone jumped on his violin. View quote
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Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.' View quote
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The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. View quote
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I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity. View quote
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Always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, Sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about. (Marilyn Monroe)
open your eyes^_^ and look within.... are you satisfied with the life, ........ U are liVing????????? View quote
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I know I will never be happy but I know I can be gay! Remember I told you Kazan said I was the gayest girl he ever knew and, believe me, he has known many. But he loved me for one year and once rocked me to sleep one night when I was in great anguish. He also suggested that I go into analysis and later wanted me to work with Lee Strasberg. Was it Milton who wrote: "The happy ones were never born?" View quote
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I am aware, that I am a woman, and I enjoy being a woman. View quote
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I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac. View quote
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