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" 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

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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. "

Marilyn Monroe

Night

Alone

" One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Marilyn Monroe

School

High School

" I've never dropped anyone I believed in. "

" 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

You

World

" I love a natural look in pictures. "

" I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror. "

" 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

Talent

" There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. "

" 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. "

" Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary. "

" I want the world to see my body. "

" I restore myself when I'm alone. "

" It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far. "

" If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers! "

" 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 don't digest things with my mind. "

" 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

Growing Up

Sex

" It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake. "

" I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have. "

" I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot. "

" I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so. "

" I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers. "

" Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage. "

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