Marilyn Monroe Quotes - Page 16

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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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• 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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• Anything’s possible, almost.

  Marilyn Monroe

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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 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 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 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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• 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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• I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Brother, Mirrors

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• Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?

  Marilyn Monroe

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

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• Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.13, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that' But you do want to stay intact-intact and on two feet.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thinking

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• Ever since I became a movie star,I've been really weird.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Stars, Movie Star, Really Weird

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• I think I made his back feel better.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Feel Better, Thinking, Made

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I have too much imagination to be a housewife

  Marilyn Monroe

  Imagination, Too Much, Housewife

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