Marilyn Monroe

(37 votes)   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
American Singer 1926-1962

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(37 votes)   I always sleep with my mouth open. I know because it's open when I wake up.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(37 votes)   I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners. But 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.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(37 votes)   I feel as though it's all happening to someone right next to me. I'm close, I can feel it, I can hear it, but it isn't really me.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(37 votes)   I never intentionally mean to hurt anyone, but you can't be too nice to people you work with, else they will trample you to death.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(37 votes)   It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(37 votes)   Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. A woman can bring new love to each man she loves, providing there aren't too many.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(37 votes)   They way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(37 votes)   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.

Marilyn Monroe
American Actress 1926-1962

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(36 votes)   Everybody says I can't act. They said the same thing about Elizabeth Taylor. And they were wrong. She was great in A Place in the Sun. I'll never get the right part, anything I really want. My looks are against me. They're too specific.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(36 votes)   I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(36 votes)   I never wear stockings or underclothes because I think it is important to breathe freely.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(36 votes)   If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do - look intelligent?

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(36 votes)   People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature — and it won't hurt your feelings — like it's happening to your clothing.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(35 votes)   Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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