"A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don't put into it!"
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"a struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine."
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"If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting."
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"I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody - I don't know who or what - maybe myself. I have feelings some days where there are scenes with a lot of responsibility, and I'll wish, 'Gee, if only I had been a cleaning woman.'"
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"Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy."
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"I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane."
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"There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on."
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"The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine."
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"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..."
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"I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away."
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"Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart."
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"You never know what life is like, until you have lived it."
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"I like to feel blonde all over."
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"You must feel attractive to be attractive."
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"Marriage is the dark side of the honeymoon"
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"Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'"
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"I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so."
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"I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me."
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"try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is."
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"I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me, tugging at me, as if they wanted a piece of me. It was always, 'do this, do that,' and not just on the job but off, too. God, I've tried to stay intact, whole."
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