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Marilyn Monroe
American
Actress
Born:
Jun 1
,
1926
Died:
Aug 5
,
1962
Girl
Me
Men
People
Think
You
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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.
Marilyn Monroe
Great
Somebody
Other
Find
Great Movie
Studio
Lot
Chief
Frightened
Get
Trying
Sitting
Any
Movie
Them
Themselves
Star
Among
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
Freedom
Rights
Ride
Minority
Few
Stars
Our
Remaining
Demanded
Involved
Protesting
Am
Loss
Right
Twinkle
Belonging
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!'
Marilyn Monroe
Woman
Will
Girl
Hat
Fine
Minute
Horror
New
Likes
She
Another
Forehead
How
Leaves
Hand
Friend
Times
Reply
Ask
Many
Slap
Her
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Marilyn Monroe
Good
Husbands
Betraying
Wives
Chiefly
Lovers
I wish I knew why I am so anguished.
Marilyn Monroe
Wish
Anguished
Knew
Am
Why
It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.
Marilyn Monroe
You
Wonderful
Someone
Praise
Desired
I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.
Marilyn Monroe
Wake Up
Think
About
Something
Like
Wake
Up
Often
Night
I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.
Marilyn Monroe
Artist
Celluloid
Want
Aphrodisiac
I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
Marilyn Monroe
Men
Petty
Annoy
Likely
Them
Less
Found
Things
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
Myself
First
Prove
Person
Trying
Maybe
Then
Convince
Actress
I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.
Marilyn Monroe
Live
Everybody
Exactly
See
Fireplace
Like
Looks
Where
Want
Sofa
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.
Marilyn Monroe
Day
You
Survival
Yourself
Somebody
Important
Living
Else
About
Day-To-Day
Feel
Ideas
Know
Read
How
Fame
Up
At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.
Marilyn Monroe
Me
Made
Girl
Seventeen
Dress
Developed
Like
Look
Looked
Still
Provided
Blue
Wore
Body
Twelve
Orphanage
A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.
Marilyn Monroe
Love
Man
Woman
Too
New
She
New Love
Providing
Loves
Many
Each
Each Man
Bring
I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!
Marilyn Monroe
Gay
Be Happy
Happy
Will
Never
Know
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.
Marilyn Monroe
Love
Man
Marriage
Girl
Before
She
Make
Him
Hold
After
I think I have always had a little humor.
Marilyn Monroe
Humor
Think
Had
Always
Little
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
Work
Seem
Only
Superstructure
Had
Put
Working
Stand
Ground
Whole
Foundation
Ever
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.
Marilyn Monroe
Best
Me
You
People
Obligation
Money
Worth
Ought
Mine
Say
Hi
Slightest
Give
Scene
Had
Toward
Come
Felt
Always
Get
Just
Them
Even
I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so.
Marilyn Monroe
Think
Bizarre
Eating
Habits
Absolutely
Been
A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.
Marilyn Monroe
Man
Woman
Emotions
Hide
Girl
Feelings
Our
Frank
More
Tendency
Sincere
His
Than
Afraid
I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.
Marilyn Monroe
Me
People
Looking
Satisfied
Until
Sing
Course
Without
Hear
Stop
Want
Mean
Them
Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.
Marilyn Monroe
Try
System
Out
Only
Studios
Make
Public
Who
Star
I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
Marilyn Monroe
Myself
Great
Once
Prove
Person
Maybe
Being
Want
Wanted
Then
Now
Actress
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.
Marilyn Monroe
Life
Love
Wife
Guess
Someone
Since
Know
Another
Terrified
Always
Been
Cannot
Really
Ever
Deeply
I've always wanted a baby.
Marilyn Monroe
Baby
Always
Wanted
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