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I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

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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!'

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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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I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

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There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.

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I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

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The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

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When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.

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I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.

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Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: June 1st, 1926

Died: August 5th, 1962

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