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Monroe Quotes |
| Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and
fifty cents for your soul.
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any. If she was a victim of any kind, she was a victim of her friends. Why should I go? She won't be there. journalist Didn't you have anything on? m.m. I had the radio on. I've been on a calendar, but never on time. I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful. A career is born in public—talent in privacy. I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. “...If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything...” “the nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least i can dream” “I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. 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” “If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere” “The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.” “It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.” “I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot” “If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.” “What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.” “I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.” “It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.” “The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.” “Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.” “No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.” “Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.” “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. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When th” “It's all make believe, isn't it?” “A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.” “I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.” “Dogs never bite me. Just humans.” “Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.” “I've never dropped anyone I believed in.” “It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.” “I restore myself when I'm alone.” “I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.” “To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.” “The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.”“I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.” “I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.” “I've been on a calendar, but never on time.” “Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most people realize 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.” “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.” “Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.” “Dogs never bite me. Just humans.” “Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.” “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.” “I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.” “I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent Marilyn Monroe's Official Web site Marilyn Quotes
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