Marilyn Monroe Quotes - Page 12

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• 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.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Real, Glamour

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

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• Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Play, Interesting

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• I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Mind, Acting

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

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• For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Mother, Long

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• There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!'

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, Hands, Likes

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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.'

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Giving Up, Ambition

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• I don't digest things with my mind.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Mind

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• They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Sick, Want, Traffic

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• The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Men, Fool, Sometimes

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.133, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody - I don't know who or what - maybe myself. I have feelings some days where there are scenes with a lot of responsibility, and I'll wish, 'Gee, if only I had been a cleaning woman.'

  Marilyn Monroe

  Responsibility, Feelings, Wish

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• I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Real, Feels

  "Fictional character: Cherie". "Bus Stop", www.imdb.com. 1956.

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• The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Fans, World, Want

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• 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.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Winning, Acting

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

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• There are no women who do not like perfume, there are women who have not found their scent.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Scent, Found, Perfume

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• try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Trying, Miserable, Enough

  Marilyn Monroe (2010). “Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters”, p.153, Macmillan

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• Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous

  Marilyn Monroe

  Creativity, Sadness, Sick

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• You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Stars, Sleep, Way

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• I have always felt comfortable in blue jeans. I have found it interesting, however, that people also whistle at blue jeans. I have to admit that I like mine to fit. There's nothing I hate worse than baggy blue jeans.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Hate, Blue

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

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• Sometimes good things the best things coincide fall apart.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Fall, Sometimes, Good Things

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• It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Secret, World, Kind

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

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• Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Girl, Men

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• Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Fame

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• I'm thirty-six years old. I'm just getting started!

  Marilyn Monroe

  Years, Six, Thirty

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• Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Rejection, Sometimes

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• I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Thinking, Eating

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