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Marilyn Monroe

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Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER I'm kind of fixated with old Hollywood, like Marilyn Monroe.
EDY GANEM Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER The eyes of Stalin, the voice of Marilyn Monroe.
FRANCOIS MITTERAND I've lived long enough to know that life doesn't always stick to the rules...The perfectly impossibl...
ELIZABETH WINDER When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.
ELIZABETH HURLEY As an only child, I embrace loneliness. Hollywood loneliness helped to understand Marilyn Monroe in ...
CATHERINE HICKS I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe.
ANNA NICOLE SMITH I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
MAMIE VAN DOREN From Marilyn Monroe to Madonna, that says it all.
GINA BROOKE I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
SHANIA TWAIN I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
CHARLIZE THERON That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. ...
MARILYN MONROE I close my eyes
and I can see a better day.
I close my eyes
and pray
JUSTIN BIEBER He married Marilyn Monroe and that certainly didn't hurt his popularity at all.
DAVID HUNT Marilyn Monroe? A vacuum with nipples
OTTO PREMINGER I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I...
LAURA HADDOCK If I close my eyes, I do not see anything but, if I imagine, I see something. To look beyond what yo...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t...
TERI GARR What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
MARILYN MONROE I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I lo...
MARILYN MONROE When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laug...
MARILYN MONROE I notice Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe get as much attention as Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Lo...
CLEO MOORE By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.
ISSEY MIYAKE I look up to Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn and old styles. You will never see me in a crop top a...
ELLA HENDERSON Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can't see.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that.
LIZA MINNELLI Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of the...
OTTO PREMINGER I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not pu...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.
HUGH HEFNER I close my eyes in order to see.
UNKNOWN Marilyn Monroe Productions was the first female-owned production company in Hollywood. She paved the...
MARIAH CAREY When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I th...
JANE HORROCKS I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made...
MARILYN MONROE A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le sou...
ANTONIO TABUCCHI I just want to be wonderful.
MARILYN MONROE Part of me has always wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe or any Fifties Hollywood starlet. On screen, ...
KATHERINE RYAN I think you're supposed to close one of your eyes.
BRAD FAXON I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I wou...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I just feel a connection with Marilyn Monroe. I just love her. I just completely feel what she went ...
ANNA NICOLE SMITH …Heath Ledger once said to me, ‘It’s built you up to knock you down and that’s all it is.
SUSAN BERNARD For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.
MARILYN MONROE You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.
MARILYN MONROE Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.
MARILYN MONROE My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will ne...
KATHERINE JENKINS I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Maril...
TABATHA COFFEY There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Mon...
PARIS HILTON If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turne...
STEPHEN HAWKING Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me...
BILLY WILDER Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness...
RITA ORA I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me ...
MALLORY JANSEN When I walk into a video arcade filled with 16- or 17-year-old boys, I may as well be Marilyn Monroe...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE It's part of the mythology, which is: The place didn't exist before I got here. Back home, you were ...
TIM HODSON I can see better when i close my eyes; don't make much ado, that's my latest style of view.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON [If Ryan left an indelible mark on the game, it was his] 46 ... like calling Marilyn Monroe just ano...
DOUG PLANK Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed ...
GENE TIERNEY People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, ...
JAMES EARL JONES A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.
MARILYN MONROE Women couldn’t identify with her and didn’t support her.
MOLLY HASKELL It's not as though a 17-year-old is going to know about Campbell's soup cans and Marilyn Monroe.
PETER SEALEY When I sing, I close my eyes. If I see a feather, everything is fine. Without this image in my mind,...
SARAH BRIGHTMAN If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States ca...
CARLOS FUENTES Before i close my eyes forever..i want to see everything in my hand or around it!
AJIT KUMAR [PATHAK I close my eyes. And i scream. If my whole world is crashing down around me, then I am going to make...
DAVID LEVITHAN When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.
DANIEL CLOWES First of all, I'm Middle Eastern; I'm Iranian, so to be playing a leading role in a big Holl...
NAZANIN BONIADI But I’ll never see anyone else, Bella. I only see you. Even when I close my eyes and try to see so...
STEPHENIE MEYER I don't even think I'll see all of 'The Mist' until I'm 18. I'm going to the...
NATHAN GAMBLE My favorite thing to do is to perform. It doesn't matter if people are watching or not because e...
BENNY CASSETTE Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movi...
MAMIE VAN DOREN They bring instant recognition to a campaign. Whether it's a print or a television one, when you sho...
MARK ROESLER If my eyes have pain, I close them; If my body aches, I rest it; If my heart breaks, I mend it; If m...
JEREMY ALDANA The drive, the ambition, the art; it all comes to me when I close my eyes and think about the sacrif...
FORREST CURRAN Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?” “I’m nothing special. I’m drowning,” I...
IF I WAKE I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me
IF I WAKE You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson...
IF I WAKE I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ...
IF I WAKE She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins
IF I WAKE You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.
CLAIRE BLOOM When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience: a bright red light, the blac...
ISSEY MIYAKE Now we all know that Fidel Castro dressed up like Marilyn Monroe and gave JFK a case of syphilis so ...
STEPHEN COLBERT I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would...
JOHN TRAVOLTA The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be...because of all I may become I...
MARY ANNE RADMACHER The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be... because of all I may become ...
MARY ANNE RADMACHER But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the p...
PETE TOWNSHEND You could only see her eyes. She has big blue eyes, and all you could see were those big blue eyes s...
KANDY MENDOCK There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations ...
GLORIA STEINEM Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
BETTE MIDLER Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
JULE STYNE To write a book about Mickey Mantle and not to show people who he really was doesn’t make any sens...
PETER GOLENBOCK Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a sma...
GLORIA STEINEM I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.
MARILYN MANSON I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystiqu...
PIXIE LOTT And in this quiet moment, as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm. ...
E.L. JAMES When I close my eyes I think of you And the times we've had been through Even though we're far apart...
DAZZLїиG_Бципу I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one af...
BAHMAN GHOBADI As we go over time, personalities like Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, these personalit...
MARK ROESLER I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very...
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MARILYN MONROE I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
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MARILYN MONROE I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way,...
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MARILYN MONROE The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
MARILYN MONROE Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't...
MARILYN MONROE What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
MARILYN MONROE It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.
MARILYN MONROE Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him t...
MARILYN MONROE I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!
MARILYN MONROE Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
MARILYN MONROE I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
MARILYN MONROE Friends accept you the way you are.
MARILYN MONROE I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.
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MARILYN MONROE We should all start to live before we get too old.
MARILYN MONROE The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
MARILYN MONROE I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.
MARILYN MONROE We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
MARILYN MONROE If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
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MARILYN MONROE I don't digest things with my mind.
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MARILYN MONROE When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.
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MARILYN MONROE I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
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MARILYN MONROE I've never dropped anyone I believed in.
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MARILYN MONROE It's all make believe, isn't it?
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MARILYN MONROE You know, most people really don't know me.
MARILYN MONROE I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
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MARILYN MONROE I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
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MARILYN MONROE Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
MARILYN MONROE Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
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MARILYN MONROE I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, thing...
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MARILYN MONROE If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
MARILYN MONROE A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
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MARILYN MONROE We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this na...
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MARILYN MONROE I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and c...
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MARILYN MONROE It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.
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MARILYN MONROE Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady
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MARILYN MONROE A sex symbol becomes a thing.... I just hate to be a thing.
MARILYN MONROE A career is born in public, talent in privacy.
MARILYN MONROE A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.
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MARILYN MONROE Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
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MARILYN MONROE I defy gravity.
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MARILYN MONROE I don't mind living in a man's world as long as i can be a woman in it.
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MARILYN MONROE I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.
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MARILYN MONROE I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.
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MARILYN MONROE Wise woman kisses, but doesn't love, listens, but doesn't believe, and leaves before she's left.
MARILYN MONROE Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I'm just a girl who wishes for the world.
MARILYN MONROE I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I hav...
MARILYN MONROE It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
MARILYN MONROE I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for ...
MARILYN MONROE I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot
MARILYN MONROE I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people ca...
MARILYN MONROE An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What i...
MARILYN MONROE We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
MARILYN MONROE I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and litt...
MARILYN MONROE The only person I know who is in worse shape than I am (on Montgomery Clift).
MARILYN MONROE She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know
MARILYN MONROE I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.
MARILYN MONROE When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I...
MARILYN MONROE All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.
MARILYN MONROE What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
MARILYN MONROE I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.
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