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I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe. -- Anna Nicole Smith
I basically read every book ever written about Marilyn Monroe. -- Megan Fox
I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe. -- Elizabeth Hurley
The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. -- Hugh Hefner
Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness. -- Rita Ora
You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that. -- Claire Bloom
Americans are obsessed with wild, outlandish things. Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse, and Michael Jackson are all wild, outlandish things. -- Lily Koppel
People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually. -- James Earl Jones
I just feel a connection with Marilyn Monroe. I just love her. I just completely feel what she went through. -- Anna Nicole Smith
If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens. -- Stephen Hawking
There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I'm that icon. -- Paris Hilton
I look up to Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn and old styles. You will never see me in a crop top and hot pants - I'm more into dresses. -- Ella Henderson
I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery. -- Pixie Lott
What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that. -- Eve Arnold
Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I'm drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar. -- Beyonce Knowles
I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the material as if it were myth - that Marilyn Monroe is like this mythical figure in our culture. -- Joyce Carol Oates
The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same. -- Hugh Hefner
Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable. -- Rebecca De Mornay
My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will never be stick thin. I remember a shoot where I had to get into these tiny hot pants, and I thought, 'God, I wish I hadn't eaten.' -- Katherine Jenkins
But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can. -- Pete Townshend
I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it sounds horrible but when she dies all her pictures are going to be worth triple. But I won't tell you how much I got them for - let's just say it was a lot. -- Melanie Brown
In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where I fell in love with Marilyn Monroe. I knew that she was the most beautiful woman in the world, and yet she was in pain, in need. She was unhappy. I believed that I could help her. -- Edmund White
As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say the name Catherine Deneuve or Brigitte Bardot, or L.A. and the name Marilyn Monroe, it's like standing in Athens, or anywhere in wide-flung Greece, and saying Aliki Vougiouklaki. A huge star - and so little known elsewhere in the world. -- Ali Smith
Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best. -- Marilyn Manson
What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman? -- Marilyn Monroe
The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!' -- Marilyn Monroe
On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler. -- Tony Curtis
By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14. -- Issey Miyake
I'm a big believer that Marilyn Monroe was killed. -- Debbie Reynolds
I'm kind of fixated with old Hollywood, like Marilyn Monroe. -- Edy Ganem
[On Marilyn Monroe:] Her body has gone to her head. -- Barbara Stanwyck
I like Marilyn Monroe; she was super glam, weren't she? -- Rebecca Ferguson
My dad treated Marilyn Monroe more like his daughter than me. -- Susan Strasberg
Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her. -- Oscar Levant
I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe. -- Charlize Theron
By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker. -- Dave Barry
I always loved the style of Jean Seberg, Jane Birkin and Marilyn Monroe. -- Helena Christensen
Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood. -- Billy Wilder
Marilyn Monroe was a very sweet girl, she was a very innocent girl. -- Debbie Reynolds
If you were married to Marilyn Monroe, you'd cheat with some ugly girl. -- George Burns
I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her. -- Juliette Binoche
I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe and find my own Clark Gable. -- Anna Nicole Smith
I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that. -- Liza Minnelli
My belief also is that Marilyn Monroe passed away long before she should have left us. -- Debbie Reynolds
It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus. -- Boy George
[Marilyn Monroe] was a bit temperamental, a little diva-like, but she didn't deserve what she got. -- Debbie Reynolds
Being blonde now doesn't mean Marilyn Monroe vulnerability. Blonde in the Eighties means being in control. -- Kim Wilde
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When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen. -- Michelle Williams
Everybody who's played Marilyn Monroe before has gone down in flames. It's impossible to capture Marilyn Monroe. -- Harvey Weinstein
Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right. -- Otto Preminger
Marilyn Monroe to me is the epitome of glamour, and always has been since I was a kid. -- Brad Goreski
Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like. -- Shania Twain
Marilyn Monroe was supposedly a size 16, which is probably why I love her style; it suits me better. -- Katherine Jenkins
I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell -- Sherilyn Fenn
I admire so many women, it's hard to choose, but I've always loved Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, and Mia Farrow. -- Christina Hendricks
When I was in bed with Marilyn Monroe, I was never sure before, during or after, where her mind was. -- Tony Curtis
You're no Elvis Presley, I'm no Marilyn Monroe, but I do think you're sexy, just thought I'd tell you so. -- Dolly Parton
If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Even being close to L.A., I was always inspired by old movies and Marilyn Monroe and the glamour of Hollywood. -- Gwen Stefani
(Of Marilyn Monroe) She was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short -- Clive James
They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original. -- Billy Wilder
Working with Marilyn Monroe on The Misfits (1961) nearly gave me a heart attack. I have never been happier when a film ended. -- Clark Gable
I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps. -- Christopher Hitchens
My favorite [costume in collection] is the white dress Marilyn Monroe wore in the subway breeze scene in 'The Seven Year Itch.' -- Debbie Reynolds
I love the old Hollywood glam look: platinum blonde hair, the perfect red lip. It's very Marilyn Monroe and shows a pure feminine beauty. -- Christina Aguilera
You probably only know what you've read [about Marilyn Monroe].You didn't know her. The people who talk about her didn't know her either. -- Debbie Reynolds
Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs ... -- Cecil Beaton
Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first. -- John Gunther
Nobody can imitate me. You can always see impersonations of Katharine Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. But not me. Because I've always drawn on myself only. -- Joan Crawford
Goodbye Norma Jean From the young man in the 22nd row Who sees you as something more than sexual More than just our Marilyn Monroe -- Elton John
Judas sold his soul for thirty pieces of silver; Faust sold his for some extra years of youth; Marilyn Monroe deserted Jesus Christ for Arthur Miller. -- Nicholas Samstag
Marilyn Monroe was taken advantage of by most of the men that knew her, including Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio, whom I also knew very well. -- Debbie Reynolds
I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died. -- Karin Slaughter
I never worked with Marilyn Monroe, but if she'd lived, I think she would have been all right. She would have been President of the United States. -- Walter Matthau
Joe DiMaggio was quite mean to Marilyn Monroe when they were married. But after she died, he did tend to her grave, which made up for it. -- Debbie Reynolds
Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her. -- Tony Randall
I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very far away from that... So I love very curvy girls. -- Carine Roitfeld
Now we all know that Fidel Castro dressed up like Marilyn Monroe and gave JFK a case of syphilis so bad it eventually blew out the back of his head. -- Stephen Colbert
If a man dreams about sleeping with Marilyn Monroe, he's certainly entitled to that. But when he wakes up, he has to acknowledge that he is married to someone else. -- Daniel Barenboim
Near the end, she [Marilyn Monroe] was badly treated by Fox Studios, during the 'Let's Make Love' film shoot in 1960, they threw her off the set because she had a cold. -- Debbie Reynolds
She [Marilyn Monroe] wasn't the most incredibly beautiful. She's rather ordinary. Cute, but no Rita Hayworth. I think she was ready for the camera, and it was a real destiny for her. -- Gail Levin
One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise. -- Clifford Odets
Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen. -- Billy Wilder
Not only did she [Marilyn Monroe] master her own image, create it and ultimately control it, she was the subject of many of the great masters of photography of the 20th century. -- Gail Levin
Nicole Kidman in particular seems to bring out the butt-kisser in the sassiest of hackettes, as they ceaselessly strive to portray her as some sort of cross between Mother Teresa and Marilyn Monroe. -- Julie Burchill
You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right. -- Linda Evans
I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide. -- Doris Roberts
Its an honor to be a part of such a legendary group of stars representing Max Factor, such as Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe, ... Im so excited to start working on the campaign. -- Carmen Electra
When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star. -- Sally Kirkland
I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But when I see myself on the screen I say: 'Oh shoot! What are they talking about?' -- Farrah Fawcett
The women I liked when I was growing up, as a little boy, were Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, because they had these curvaceous figures, and they were erotic to me. -- John Travolta
Marilyn Monroe gave more to the still camera than any actress, any woman I've ever photographed; infinitely more patient, more demanding of herself and more comfortable in front of the camera than away from it. -- Richard Avedon
He had a new girl, and I told him she looked like Marilyn Monroe. He smiled because he thought I meant she was beautiful, and I smiled because I meant she looked like a corpse. -- Jarod Kintz
As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce -- Clive James
I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon. -- John Travolta
I love Judy Garland, I love Doris Day, I love Marilyn Monroe. I love everything that comes from that era. The music is just beautiful and powerful - and simple. That's what makes it so great. -- Emmy Rossum
As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce. -- Clive James
It's a toss-up whether the scenery or the adornment of Marilyn Monroe is the feature of greater attraction in River of No Return. The mountainous scenery is spectacular, but so in her own way is Miss Monroe. -- Bosley Crowther
I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick. -- Laura Haddock
We think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America. Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards. -- Norman Mailer
I was the first home-grown sex symbol, rather like Britain`s naughty seaside postcards. When Marilyn Monroe`s first film was shown here [The Asphalt Jungle (1950)], a columnist actually wrote: `How much like our Diana Dors she is`. -- Diana Dors
Marilyn Monroe and Vivienne Leigh are real icons of mine. In terms of visual culture, they are both so iconic. There weren't any paparazzi shots of them falling out of taxis, so they will always look so incredible. -- Lily Cole
I'd love to be a memorable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual, comic, tragic way. I'd like to leave the impression that Marilyn Monroe did, to be able to arouse so many different feelings in people. -- Madonna Ciccone
I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that. -- Kim Novak
Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?" I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin. -- Chuck Palahniuk
A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of gay men feel that way because of their particular predicament in society and not being accepted completely. -- Madonna Ciccone
If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best. -- Carlos Fuentes
I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe. -- Sharon Stone
Anna [Nicole Smith ] in a lot of ways always thought she was going to die young and she said that she thought she was going to be like Marilyn Monroe. Initially, Anna had always wanted to be buried near Marilyn Monroe. -- Howard K. Stern
You constantly felt like you wanted to protect her and that you wanted to save her and that's what made her attractive more so to women than even to men. That's why she's still with us. Marilyn Monroe never offended a woman. -- Lawrence Schiller
I think Paris Hilton is really our generation's Marilyn Monroe. She's the image of the youth today. There's a real fascination with Paris, ranging on the obsessive. I'm repulsed by her, but because of her notoriety, she has access to an audience. -- Matt Tong
I remember the day I discovered James Dean and Marilyn Monroe. I don't know why it affected me so strongly, but I walked down to the corner store and bought every poster of them, and I did my whole room up. Overnight. -- Gwen Stefani
The worst thing is to have all that clout and not know your own mind. If she says her (Marilyn Monroe's)favorite color is beige, that has to be a definite possibility. Then she will be as dangerous as a Chinese Empress. -- Colin Clark
When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I think of her physically and I am just able to create her sound, because her physicality was so much to do with her sound. -- Jane Horrocks
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I love Marilyn Monroe. I think she was the coolest blonde. I think like me she just didn't care what anyone thinks. She's happy. She's smiling. I don't know, I just always thought she was so beautiful and she just seemed, like, magical. -- Paris Hilton
Marilyn Monroe seemed to have a kind of unconscious glow about her physical self that was innocent, like a child. When she posed nude, it was 'Gee, I am kind of, you know, sort of dishy,' like she enjoyed it without being egotistical. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Ever since Marilyn Monroe was transformed from one of the prettiest girls you could ever hope to see into an icon, everyone has been trying to repeat that icon. And now the entire industry is filled with, and by and large run by, wannabes. -- Melissa Leo

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