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Some Marilyn "Quotes"
Here's a few quotes either by Marilyn or quotes made on Marilyn.
Quotes on Marilyn
"Nobody discovered her; she earned her own way to stardom." ~Darryl Zanuck~
"Marilyn wasn't killed by Hollywood. It was the god damn doctors who killed her. If she was a pill addict, they made her so." ~John Huston~
"She's frightened to death of the public who thinks she's sexy. My God, if they only knew." ~Allan Snyder~
"If it hadn't been for her friends she might still be alive." ~Joe DiMagio~
Quotes by Marilyn Monroe
"I've always been frightened by an audience-any audience. My stomach pounds, my head gets dizzy and I'm sure my voice has left me."
"No sex is wrong if there is love in it. But too often people act like it's gymnasium work, mechanical."
"How I wanted to learn, to change, to improve! I didn't want anything else. Not men, not money, not love, but the ability to act."
"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents."
"I've been on a calender, but never on time."
"My impulse to appear naked and my dreams about it had no shame or sense of sin in them. Dreaming of people looking ant me made me feel less lonely."
"I'm only comfortable when I'm naked."
"I am content to be Marilyn Monroe, to the best of my ability. Being one's self is a twenty-four hour a day job anyway isn't it?"
"I always thought that movie stars were exciting people full of special personality. Meeting one of them at a party I discover usually that he (or she) is colorless or even frightened. I've often stood silent at a party for hours litening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people."
"A career is wonderful, but you can't up with it on a cold night."
"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".
"The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves. Men sometimes didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them".
"I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?' And I'd answer, 'Everything, everything,' and I'd walk slowly and turn my head slowly as if I were a queen."
"Don't most women dress for men? Isn't it true that men and women have mutual appreciation of each other?"
"I didn't want to be kissed, and I didn't dream of being seduced by a duke or a movie star. The truth was that all my lipstick and mascara and precocious curves, I was as unresponsive as a fossil. But I seemed to affect people quite otherwise."
"It's nice to be included in people's fantasies..."
"There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albino's."
"Any girl who resents whistles should live on a desert island."
"I always wear clothes appropriate to the occasion."
"I hear you're looking for a sexy blonde to play the Marx Bothers. Would you like to see me? I'm blonde and I'm sexy."
"CAN YOU IMAGINE ME AS FIRST LADY?"
"Money, that's what it's all about."
"I am unvariably late for appointments...sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways, but the things that make me late are too strong, too pleasing."
"I want to be a big star more than anything. It's something precious."
"If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do - look intelligent?"
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