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Marilyn Monroe [1926-1962] American

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Actress

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Famous for playing comic "dumb blonde" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s, emblematic of the era's attitudes towards sexuality.

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I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.	Best	101
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.	Good, Love	102
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.	Beauty	103
Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.		104
Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.	Success	105
We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.		106
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.	Alone	107
Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.		108
If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.		109
Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.	Men	110
The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.	Romantic, Space	111
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.	Love, Marriage	112
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.	Anniversary, Friendship, Good, Love, Marriage	113
Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.	Life	114
The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.	Men, Truth	115
I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.		116
I restore myself when I'm alone.	Alone	117
Dogs never bite me - just humans.		118
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.	God	119
If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.		120
Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.	Love, Men	121
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.	Alone	122
You know, most people really don't know me.		123
What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?	Good	124
Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.		125
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.	Change, Women	126
Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.	Beauty	201
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.		202
Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wide single bed, and I use only one heavy down comforter over me, summer or winter. I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.		203
I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing 'Happy Birthday,' like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!'	Birthday	204
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.		205
I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.		206
What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.		207
It's all make believe, isn't it?		208
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.	Women	209
I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.	Money	210
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.		211
Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.	Fear	212
Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.		213
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.		214
Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.		215
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.		216
A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.	Best	217
I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.	Men	218
I like to feel blonde all over.		219
Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?	Respect	220
We should all start to live before we get too old.		221
Fear is stupid. So are regrets.	Fear	222
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.		223
A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.	Strength	224
I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.		225
Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.		226
It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.		301
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.	Money, Movies	302
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.	Experience	303
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.	Nature	304
If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.		305
I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.		306
I've never dropped anyone I believed in.		307
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.	Respect	308
I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.		309
Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.		310
A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.		311
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.		312
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.		313
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.		314
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.	Change	315
My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.		316
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.		317
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.		318
I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.		319
I think I have always had a little humor.	Humor	320
I don't digest things with my mind.		321
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.		322
Friends accept you the way you are.		323
I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.		324
Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.		325
The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'		326
Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.	Alone, Movies	401
I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.		402
I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.		403
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.		404
I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.		405
All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'		406
I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.		407
I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.	Alone	408
I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so.		409
At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.		410
A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.		411
Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.		412
Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.		413
Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.		414
I want the world to see my body.		415
What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?		416
There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.	Home	417
A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.		418
One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.		419
Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.		420
I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.		421
It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.		422
If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.	Sports	423
When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.		424
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.	Alone	425
If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.		426
What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.		501
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.		502
I read poetry to save time.	Poetry	503
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.	Age	504
A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.	Alone	505
I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.		506
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.		507
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.	Society	508
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.		509
I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.		510
Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they'll say, 'Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?' And they'll start tailing me. And I don't mind.	Attitude	511
My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.	Home	512
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.		513
I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.		514
When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.		515
We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.		516
I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.		517
I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!		518
I defy gravity.		519
I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.		520
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.	Freedom	521
I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.		522
When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.		523
A smart girl leaves before she is left.		524
I love a natural look in pictures.		525
Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.		526
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.		601
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.		602
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.		603
I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.		604
I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.		605
Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.	Famous	606
Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.		607
I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.		608
When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.		609
There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!'		610
In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.		611
For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.		612
My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50?		613
To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.		614
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.		615
First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.		616
A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.		617
I've always wanted a baby.		618
What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?		619
I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.		620
I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.	Famous	621
The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.	Trust	622
In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.		623
I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.		624
It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.		625
I wish I knew why I am so anguished.		626
Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'		701
The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.		702
I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.	Alone, Respect	703
A career is born in public - talent in privacy.		704
Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.		705
A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.		706
When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.		707
I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.		708
Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.	Marriage, Relationship	709
The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.		710
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!		711
Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?		712
Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.		713
It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.		714
I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.	Courage	715
Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'		716
Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.		717
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?		718
If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.		719
When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.		720
Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.		721
There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.		722
I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I'll leave those things to the men.	Sports	723
I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.		724
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.		725
I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.		726
I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.		801
I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.		802
How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.		803
I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.		804

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