A small wind-up metal robot wears a red scarf beside scattered coins.

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Marilyn Monroe

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

An actress is a person, she says, yet gets handled like a machine, specifically one that produces money. The repetition of machine sharpens the complaint: being valued as output rather than as a human being with feelings and needs.

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