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Marilyn Monroe
American
Actress
About the author
I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Woman
I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Want
#Money
A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Hate
#Sex
#Symbol
A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Career
#Night
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Public
#World
Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Will
#Experience
#Fame
First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#First
#Trying
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Hollywood
#Soul
#Kiss
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Husbands
#Lovers
#Wives
I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Change
I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Freedom
#Stars
#Rights
#Minority
#Loss
I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Want
#Money
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Women
I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Want
#Mind
#Jokes
I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Life
#Love
#Wife
Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Being
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Fantasy
#Housewife
I restore myself when I'm alone.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#World
#Man
#Woman
#Living
#Mind
I've never dropped anyone I believed in.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Rules
If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#People
It's all make believe, isn't it?
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Nothing
It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Nothing
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Talk
#Feeling
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Respect
#Men
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Want
#Talent
#Feelings
Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Hurt
#Being
#Sex
#Symbol
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Love
#Man
#Marriage
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Money
#Machine
I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Time
Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Dogs
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Body
What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Bed
To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Name
#Mistake
The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Want
#Children
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Nature
#Sex
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Pretty
#Girls
My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Work
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
Marilyn Monroe,
American
Actress
#Trouble
#Worry