"I'm trying to find myself. Sometimes it's not that easy."
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"(about her teen years) My admirers all said the same thing in different ways. It was my fault, their wanting to kiss and hug me."
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"I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing."
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"I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me."
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"it is better to be happy alone than to be miserable with someone else"
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"I've never liked the name Marilyn. I've often wished that I had held out that day for Jean Monroe. But I guess it's too late to do anything about it now."
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"When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own."
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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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"What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?"
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"You're the beautiful one. It's society that's ugly."
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"It's better to be angry without paying for gold than to be angry after you paid."
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"In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon."
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"I am good, but not an angel."
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"I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to."
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"When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world."
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"For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented."
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"People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person."
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"I love a natural look in pictures. I like people with a feeling one way or another - it shows an inner life. I like to see that there’s something going on inside them."
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"People always ask me if I believe diamonds are a girl's best friend. Frankly, I don't."
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"A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many."
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