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The trouble with censors is they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.— Marilyn Monroe

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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

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The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space. – Marilyn Monroe

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The 'public' scares me, but people I trust. – Marilyn Monroe

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The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.— Marilyn Monroe

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The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.— Marilyn Monroe

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The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex…. Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges.— Marilyn Monroe

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The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know. – Marilyn Monroe

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The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.— Marilyn Monroe

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That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed. ― Marilyn Monroe

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That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of.— Marilyn Monroe

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Talent is developed in privacy… but everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk at you. They'd kind of like to take pieces out of you.— Marilyn Monroe

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Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere. ― Marilyn Monroe

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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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Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy.— Marilyn Monroe

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Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together ― Marilyn Monroe

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Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character. – Marilyn Monroe

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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.— Marilyn Monroe

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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 yourself…— Marilyn Monroe

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Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection. – Marilyn Monroe

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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.'– Marilyn Monroe

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Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had. – Marilyn Monroe

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Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.— 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

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So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about. ― Marilyn Monroe

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She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know ― Marilyn Monroe

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She [Sadie Thompson] was a girl who knew how to be gay even when she was sad. And that’s important–you know?— Marilyn Monroe

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Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.— Marilyn Monroe

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Seeing your name in front page headlines as if you were some kind of a major accident or gun battle is always startling. No matter how often you see it you don't get used to it. You keep thinking-"That's about me. The whole country's reading about me. Maybe the world is.— Marilyn Monroe

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Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that? – Marilyn Monroe

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Please don’t make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one… I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity. If fame goes by, 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 experienced, but that’s not where I live.— Marilyn Monroe

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Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine.— Marilyn Monroe

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People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.— Marilyn Monroe

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People had a habit of looking at me like I was some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.— Marilyn Monroe

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People always ask me if I believe diamonds are a girl's best friend. Frankly, I don't.— Marilyn Monroe

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Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it. – Marilyn Monroe

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

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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. – Marilyn Monroe

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Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living. – Marilyn Monroe

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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

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Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met. – Marilyn Monroe

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Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.— Marilyn Monroe

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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

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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. – Marilyn Monroe

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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

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My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.— Marilyn Monroe

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My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!— Marilyn Monroe

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Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.— Marilyn Monroe

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Most importantly, keep smiling. Because life is a beautiful thing, and there’s so much to smile about.— Marilyn Monroe

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Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. – Marilyn Monroe

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Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.— Marilyn Monroe

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Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.— Marilyn Monroe

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Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope. ― Marilyn Monroe

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Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men. – Marilyn Monroe

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Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love. ― Marilyn Monroe

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Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me. ― Marilyn Monroe

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Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out. – Marilyn Monroe

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Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido!— Marilyn Monroe

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Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about. ― Marilyn Monroe

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Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will?? ― Marilyn Monroe

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I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.— Marilyn Monroe

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I've never liked the name Marilyn. I've often wished that I had held out that day for Jean Monroe. But I guess it's too late to do anything about it now.— Marilyn Monroe

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I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They 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. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. ― Marilyn Monroe

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I've never dropped anyone I believed in.— Marilyn Monroe

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I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them. – Marilyn Monroe

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I've been on a calendar, but never on time.— Marilyn Monroe