Marilyn Monroe
FameRank: 10

"Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy"

/ Some Like It Hot (1960)

/ "Golden Globe for World Film Favorite: Female"

/ 1953, 1962

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/ afiawards = "AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars" (1999)

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"Marilyn Monroe" (born "Norma Jeane Mortenson"; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer, who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s and early 1960s.

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I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

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I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

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A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing. -Marilyn Monroe
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I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.

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If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.

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An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. -Marilyn Monroe
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I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.

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What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

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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. -Marilyn Monroe
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Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

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I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

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It is better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone else. -Marilyn Monroe
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Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision?

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

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Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat? -Marilyn Monroe
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I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

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

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I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made. -Marilyn Monroe
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If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

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I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.'

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I don't mind living in a man's world as long as i can be a woman in it. -Marilyn Monroe
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The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least i can dream.

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Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle.

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The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up. -Marilyn Monroe
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It's all make believe, isn't it?

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I've been on a calendar, but never on time.

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