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" If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers! "
Marilyn Monroe
Business
Men
Life
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" I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so. "
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" Friends accept you the way you are. "
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Way
" Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you. "
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" 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. "
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Hide
Emotions
Feelings
" Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst? "
Marilyn Monroe
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" 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
" 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!' "
Marilyn Monroe
Horror
Woman
She
" There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls. "
Marilyn Monroe
Playing
Man
Home
" I love a natural look in pictures. "
Marilyn Monroe
Love
Natural
Pictures
" 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. "
Marilyn Monroe
World
Moment
Yourself
" 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. "
Marilyn Monroe
Speak
Up
Friend
" What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me? "
Marilyn Monroe
Good
Want
Three
" Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. "
Marilyn Monroe
Husbands
Lovers
Wives
" We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle. "
Marilyn Monroe
Twinkle
Stars
Deserve
" I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people. "
Marilyn Monroe
Admire
People
Myself
" 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. "
Marilyn Monroe
World
Woman
Picture
" 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. "
Marilyn Monroe
Me
Mistakes
Best
" 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!' "
Marilyn Monroe
Thought
Place
Birthday
" 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. "
Marilyn Monroe
Used
Want
Children
" The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any. "
Marilyn Monroe
Trouble
Worry
She
" I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane. "
Marilyn Monroe
Like
Over
Wear
" I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. "
Marilyn Monroe
Acting
Enjoy
Hit
" Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered. "
Marilyn Monroe
Tired
Sex
Carry
" 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. "
Marilyn Monroe
Strong
Woman
Strength
" 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
Sitting
Star
Trying
" 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. "
Marilyn Monroe
Live
Experience
Will
" I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay! "
Marilyn Monroe
Happy
Gay
Be Happy
" 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
Age
Think
Old Age
" We should all start to live before we get too old. "
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Live
Get
Too
" I've always wanted a baby. "
Marilyn Monroe
Baby
Always
Wanted