Marilyn Monroe Quotes

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Marilyn Monroe

Profession : Actress

Birth : June 1, 1926

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

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If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

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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.

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With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

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I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

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When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.

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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.

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There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.

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I've always wanted a baby.

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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.

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Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

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

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

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I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

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A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

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I don't digest things with my mind.

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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.

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Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

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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.

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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.

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