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I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.

Marilyn Monroe

Girl, Sex, Tired

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

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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.

Marilyn Monroe

Inspiring, Eye, Night

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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.

Marilyn Monroe

Fun, Fall, Past

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This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping the child to them, they start punishing the child. Like you don't dare get a cold. How dare you get a cold! I mean, the executives can get colds and stay home forever and phone it in, but how dare you, the actor, get a cold or a virus. You know, no one feels worse than the one who's sick. I sometimes wish, gee, I wish they had to act a comedy with a temperature and a virus infection.

Marilyn Monroe

Mother, Running, Children

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Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose money had bought the studio. It was an art that transformed you into somebody else, that increased your life and mind. I had always loved acting and tried hard to learn it. But with Michael Chekhov, acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.

Marilyn Monroe

Inspiring, Art, Men

Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.171, Rowman & Littlefield

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Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.

Marilyn Monroe

Inspiring, Creativity, Gay

"Marilyn Monroe Pours Her Heart Out". Interview with Richard Meryman, LIFE Magazine, August 3, 1962.

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I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

Marilyn Monroe

People, Giving, Acting

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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.

Marilyn Monroe

Dream, Father, Men

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Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.

Marilyn Monroe

Long, May, Fame

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I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

Marilyn Monroe

Movie, Inspiring, Girl

Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.43, Taylor Trade Publishing

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In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.

Marilyn Monroe

World, Enough, Decided

Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.107, Taylor Trade Publishing

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Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden

Marilyn Monroe

Real, Mind, Special

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How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.

Marilyn Monroe

Inspiring, Girl, Sex

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

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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

Marilyn Monroe

Girl, Important, Hollywood

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

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A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of.

Marilyn Monroe

Inspiring, Sex, Business

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

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I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

Marilyn Monroe

Acting Right, Acting, Enjoy

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

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After all, all we demanded was a right to twinkle.

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I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.

Marilyn Monroe

Feelings, Sometimes, Used

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Of the nude pictures: Sure I posed. I needed the money.

Marilyn Monroe

Acting, Needed

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I've never liked the name Marilyn. I've often wished that I had held out that day for Jean Monroe. But I guess it's too late to do anything about it now.

Marilyn Monroe

Inspiring, Names, Too Late

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

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I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.

Marilyn Monroe

People, Trying, Acting

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I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

Marilyn Monroe

Integrity, Artist, Want

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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?

Marilyn Monroe

Sad, Back Love, Remember

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Sex is nature, and I
believe in going along
with nature.

Marilyn Monroe

Sex, Believe, I Believe

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I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

Marilyn Monroe

Inspiring, Mirrors, Looks

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Born: June 1, 1926
Died: August 5, 1962
Occupation: Actress
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