Marilyn Monroe

(127 votes)   A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.

Marilyn Monroe
1926-, American Actress

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(126 votes)   When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(123 votes)   Johnny Hyde was wonderful, but he was not my Svengali. Milton Greene was not my Svengali I' m nobody's slave and never have been ... Now they write that Lee Strasberg is my Svengali . . . and Arthur Miller isn't my Svengali.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(120 votes)   I feel wonderful. I'm incorporated!

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(120 votes)   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
American Singer 1926-1962

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(116 votes)   Some of those bastards in Hollywood wanted me to drop Arthur. Said it would ruin my career. They're born cowards and want you to be like them. One reason I want to see Kennedy win is that Nixon's associated with that whole scene.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(113 votes)   The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(111 votes)   I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(105 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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(104 votes)   Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most people realize 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.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(103 votes)   She [Sadie Thompson] was a girl who knew how to be gay even when she was sad. And that's important--you know?

Marilyn Monroe
American Actress 1926-1962

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(102 votes)   As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(95 votes)   I didn't pay much attention to the whistles and whoops, in fact, I didn't quite hear them. I was full of a strange feeling, as if I were two people. One of them was Norma Jeane from the orphanage who belonged to nobody; the other was someone whose name I didn't know. But I knew where she belonged; she belonged to the ocean and the sky and the whole world.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(93 votes)   It isn't necessary to use your voice in any special way (to sound sexy). If you think something sexy the voice just naturally goes along.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(89 votes)   I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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