Marilyn Monroe Quotes - Page 11

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• It's better to be angry without paying for gold than to be angry after you paid.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Gold, Angry, Paid

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• I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Children, Average, Expecting

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• I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Real, Sleep, Creepy

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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.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Fickle, Fame

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• I've read all of Shakespeare and practiced a lot of lines. ... I am going to do Juliet first. Don't laugh. What, with what makeup, costume and camera can do, my acting will create a Juliet who is 14, an innocent virgin.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Makeup, Laughing, Acting

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• I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Artist, Underdog, Corporations

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Cities, People

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.70, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• When it gets hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the ice box.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Ice, Hot

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• Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Dog, Hurt

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• I am good, but not an angel.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Angel

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• The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, People, Scare

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• In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, Kissing, Soul

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.53, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Brando, Mines

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me- and that I've made of myself- as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Life, Sex

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Movie, Stars, Trying

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.70, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.

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  Inspiring, Husband, Boredom

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Stars, People, Made

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• What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?

  Marilyn Monroe

  Kids, Three, Want

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• There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Blonde, Earth, Natural

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• I want to say to the people, if I am a star, the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Stars, Real, People

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• Squeezing yourself to ooze out the last ounce of sex allure is terribly hard. I'd like to do roles like Julie in Bury the Dead, Gretchen in Faust and Teresa in Cradle Song.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Song, Sex, Roles

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• Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

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  Inspiring, Anniversary, Book

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• When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.

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  Crazy, Smell, Hollywood

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.87, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, Suicide, Self Harm

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.79, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Life, Happiness

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