"Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you."
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"I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac."
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"Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out."
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"It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment."
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"There is a need for aloneness... for an actor."
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"It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls."
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"A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself."
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"Everybody says I can't act. They said the same thing about Elizabeth Taylor. And they were wrong. She was great in A Place in the Sun. I'll never get the right part, anything I really want. My looks are against me. They're too specific."
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"Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do."
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"Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea."
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"You can read about yourself but what's important is how you feel about yourself."
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"I didn't pay much attention to the whistles and whoops, in fact, I didn't quite hear them. I was full of a strange feeling, as if I were two people. One of them was Norma Jeane from the orphanage who belonged to nobody; the other was someone whose name I didn't know. But I knew where she belonged; she belonged to the ocean and the sky and the whole world."
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"You know, most people really don't know me."
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"I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots"
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"Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido!"
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"If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell shouldn't schedule a meeting with me before 10am."
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"As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste."
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"What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?"
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"Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence."
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"You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love."
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