Sunday, October 23, 2011

Marilyn Monroe Quotations and Sayings

Marilyn Monroe Quotations and Sayings
Marilyn Monroe


A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
Marilyn Monroe 

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
Marilyn Monroe 

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

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
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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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Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
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Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
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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.
Marilyn Monroe 

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
Marilyn Monroe 

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Marilyn Monroe 

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Marilyn Monroe 

I am invariably 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, and too pleasing.
Marilyn Monroe 

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe 

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
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I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
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I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
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I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
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I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
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I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
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I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
Marilyn Monroe