Marilyn Monroe Quotes

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The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body — you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.

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I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.

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I know I will never be happy but I know I can be gay!

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I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. … Goethe said, "Talent is developed in privacy," you know? And it's really true. … Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.

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But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.

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A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

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Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you're a nice guy.

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I don't care about the money. I just want to be wonderful.
Sometimes quoted as: I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.

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The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.

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In Hollywood, a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

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I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch.

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Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity... If fame goes by, 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 experienced, but that's not where I live.

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A struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine.

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A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

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Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness... fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know — it's good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day.

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When you have only a single dream it is more than likely to come true - because you keep working toward it without getting mixed up.

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On Arthur Miller's mother always serving matzo ball soup for them:
Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?

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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.

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I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

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If I am a star, it was the people who made me one — not the studio, but the people.

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I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.

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I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

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Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one.

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Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

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