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Marilyn Monroe — Portrait after a picture by Sam Shaw (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Marilyn Monroe

American actress and model

1926–1962

8 quotes, most often on Men and Fame. Part of the Hollywood collection.

When you’re famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.
Comment on fame, quoted in Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress (1993) by Carl E. Rollyson, and in Symbolic Leaders: Public Dramas and Public Men (2006) by Orrin Edgar Klapp
- Envy
- Fame
That’s the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I’m going to be a symbol of something, I’d rather it be sex than some of the things we’ve got symbols of… I hate to be a thing.
Comment on her sex symbol status, quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 40
- Fame
- Sex

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