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" 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
Life
Someone
Know
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" I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts. "
Marilyn Monroe
Actress
Integrity
Kinds
" 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.' "
Marilyn Monroe
Someone
Me
Talent
" I am alone; I am always alone no matter what. "
Marilyn Monroe
Alone
Am
Always
" An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. "
Marilyn Monroe
Actress
Treat
Money
" 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. "
Marilyn Monroe
People
Best
Money
" Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men. "
Marilyn Monroe
Marriage
Two
Relationship
" The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it. "
Marilyn Monroe
Living
Without
Together
" I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. "
Marilyn Monroe
I Am
Am
Many
" I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so. "
Marilyn Monroe
Absolutely
Eating
Think
" 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. "
Marilyn Monroe
Like
Glamour
Beauty
" I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen. "
Marilyn Monroe
Women
Talent
Since
" 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? "
Marilyn Monroe
Me
Growing Up
Sex
" 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. "
Marilyn Monroe
Myself
Feeling
Know
" If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything. "
Marilyn Monroe
Her
Laugh
You
" For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother. "
Marilyn Monroe
Long Time
Out
Mother
" Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world. "
Marilyn Monroe
Right
Girl
World
" 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. "
Marilyn Monroe
Me
You
World
" 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. "
Marilyn Monroe
Loved
Alone
Movies
" Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal. "
Marilyn Monroe
You
Know
Good
" Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. "
Marilyn Monroe
Imperfection
Beauty
Genius
" A career is born in public - talent in privacy. "
Marilyn Monroe
Privacy
Career
Public
" When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep. "
Marilyn Monroe
Sleep
Straight
Cried
" If I'm a star, then the people made me a star. "
Marilyn Monroe
Then
People
Me
" I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly. "
Marilyn Monroe
Good
Think
Men
" 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. "
Marilyn Monroe
Man
Romantic
Smiling
" Friends accept you the way you are. "
Marilyn Monroe
Accept
You
Way
" It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far. "
Marilyn Monroe
Far
Someone
Unhappy
" 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. "
Marilyn Monroe
Marriage
Love
Friendship
" 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. "
Marilyn Monroe
Yourself
Fun
Know
" What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another? "
Marilyn Monroe
Drawing
Breath
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