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Quotes By Marilyn Monroe

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Actress And Model

Marilyn Monroe

Jun 01, 1926 - Aug 04, 1962

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

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

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.

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.

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.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.

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.

Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady.

A career is born in public-talent in privacy.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

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

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

It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.