Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe,, born Norma Jeane Mortenson but baptized Norma Jeane Baker, was an American actress, singer, model and sex symbol.After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract more..more..

“ Marilyn Monroe:Why? — It paid the rent. #Money#Money

“ Marilyn Monroe: I have been on a calendar, but never on time. #Punctuality #Punctuality

“ Marilyn Monroe:I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful. #Money#Money

“ Marilyn Monroe:My how fast the months go — and the calendars! #Friends and Friendship#Friends and Friendship

“ Marilyn Monroe:I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful. #Money#Money

“ Marilyn Monroe:Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature. #Sex #Sex

“ Marilyn Monroe:If I am a star the people made me a star. #Stardom #Stardom

“ Marilyn Monroe:No sex is wrong if there is love in it. But, too often, people act like it's gymnasium work, mechanical. #Love#Love

“ Marilyn Monroe:If I had observed all the rules, I'd never have gotten anywhere. #Wisdom#Wisdom

“ Marilyn Monroe:When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does. People you run into feel that, well, who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe? They feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature — and it won't hurt your feelings — like it's happening to your clothes not you. #Museums and Galleries#Museums and Galleries

“ Marilyn Monroe:I let them think what they want. If they just care enough to bother with what I do then, I'm already better than them anyway. #Death and Dying#Death and Dying

“ Marilyn Monroe:I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me — and that I've made of myself — as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it. #Sex#Sex

“ Marilyn Monroe:No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't. #Marriage#Marriage

“ Marilyn Monroe:I've never dropped anyone I believed in. #Belief#Belief

“ Marilyn Monroe:It's not true I had nothing on. I had the radio on. #Media#Media

“ Marilyn Monroe: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. #Fame#Fame

“ Marilyn Monroe:It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far. #Happiness#Happiness

“ Marilyn Monroe:People had a habit of looking at me as if I were 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. #Dreams#Dreams

“ Marilyn Monroe:It is better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone else. #Happiness#Happiness

“ Marilyn Monroe:My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation — but I'm working on the foundation. #Belief#Belief

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