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" There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on. "
Marilyn Monroe
Without
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Clothes
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" 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.' "
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" Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered. "
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" Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. "
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" A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman. "
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" I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror. "
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" The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves. "
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" 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!' "
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" A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself. "
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" Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst? "
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" 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. "
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" The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it. "
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" What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me? "
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" I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have. "
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Sure
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" Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. "
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Finding
Must
" 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. "
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Money
" I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers. "
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Looking
" Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. "
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" 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. "
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Dinner
Know
" 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. "
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Night
Me
Alone
" A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. "
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" What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another? "
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" I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look. "
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" 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. "
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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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