Marilyn Monroe Quotes - Page 17

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• It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Hurt, People, Giving

  Quoted in Ms., Aug. 1972

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• I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Acting, Too Much

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

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• A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don't put into it!

  Marilyn Monroe

  Sweaters

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

  Marilyn Monroe

  Acting, Needed

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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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• 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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• What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

  Marilyn Monroe

  Drawing, Next, Draws

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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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• Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all. My biggest single concern used to be getting enough to eat. Now I have to worry about eating too much. I never used to bother with exercises. Now I spend at least 10 minutes each morning working out with small weights. I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Morning, Exercise, Play

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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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• I do sin, but I am not the devil.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Angel, Cute Girl, Devil

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• Jewish men don't know anything.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Men, Knows

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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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• There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

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• I like to feel blonde all over.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Blonde, Feels

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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.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Determination, Overwhelmed

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

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• I want to be an artist, not an erotic freak. I don’t want to be sold to the public as a celluloid aphrodisiac.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Artist, Erotic, Aphrodisiac

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• When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Running, Envy, Doe

  "Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress". Book by Carl E. Rollyson, 1993.

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• Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?

  Marilyn Monroe

  People, Looks, Worst

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• I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Artist, Aphrodisiac, Want

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• I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring

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• I've always wanted a baby.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Baby, Wanted

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• Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Dumb, Blonde

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

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• Acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Acting, Profession

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

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