Marilyn Monroe Quotes - Page 16

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• Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all

  Marilyn Monroe

  Real, Figures, Exceptional

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• There's no such thing as chance, it's all preordained.Lik e KISMET.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Chance, Kismet

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• People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Hard Times, People

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• I've fallen in love with Brooklyn. I'm going to buy a little house in Brooklyn and live there. I'll go to the coast only when I have to make a picture.

  Marilyn Monroe

  House, Brooklyn, Littles

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• Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, People, Laughing

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

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

  Marilyn Monroe

  Acting, Needed

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• When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

  Marilyn Monroe

  World, Whole, Felt

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• All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Hurt, Worry

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• But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Lying, People

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.32, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?' And I'd answer, 'Everything, everything,' and I'd walk slowly and turn my head slowly as if I were a queen.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Queens, Devil, Proud

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.65, Rowman & Littlefield

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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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• Anything’s possible, almost.

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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'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Thinking, Wonderful Friends, Stories

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• What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

  Marilyn Monroe

  Ordinary

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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 am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Girl, Meaningful

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• I’ve given pure sex appeal very little thought. If I had to think about it I’m sure it would frighten me.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Sex, Thinking, Littles

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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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• We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Thinking, Strange, Humans

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• I'm sin, but I'm not the devil.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Angel, Cute Girl

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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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• The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Girl, Worry

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

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• For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.

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  Determination, Overwhelmed

  Marilyn Monroe (2010). “Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters”, p.159, Macmillan

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• Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Creative, Tears

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