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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Marilyn Monroe

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" For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother. "

" I love a natural look in pictures. "

" 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!' "

" 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. "

" I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it. "

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

" Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you. "

Marilyn Monroe

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May

" What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman? "

" Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had. "

" 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. "

" 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!' "

" A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly. "

" In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon. "

" If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein. "

" 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. "

" I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human. "

" 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. "

" Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men. "

" I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. "

" We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves. "

" 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. "

Marilyn Monroe

Little

Little Girls

" 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. "

" I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac. "

" 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

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" 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. "

" If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything. "