It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
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An actor is not a machine, no matter how much they want to say you are. Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer.
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The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was.
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An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
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I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
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It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.
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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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Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
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Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose money had bought the studio. It was an art that transformed you into somebody else, that increased your life and mind. I had always loved acting and tried hard to learn it. But with Michael Chekhov, acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.
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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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