Quotes
About Marilyn Monroe
"This girl had something I hadn't seen since
silent pictures. She had a kind of fantastic beauty like Gloria
Swanson and she radiated sex like Jean
Harlow. She didn't need a soundtrack to tell her story."
-- Leon Shamroy, the cinematographer who shot Marilyn's first screen
test
"Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The
Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me
more off the screen than on.there was something touching and appealing
about her."
-- John Huston, director of The Misfits
and The Asphalt Jungle
"She seemed very shy, and I remember that when the studio workers would
whistle at her, it seemed to embarrass her."
-- Cary Grant, co-star in Monkey Business
"I did Niagara
with her. I found her marvelous to work with and terrifically ambitious
to do better. And bright. She may not have had an education, but she was
just naturally bright."
-- Henry Hathaway, director of the 1952 film
"She represents to man something we all want in our unfulfilled dreams.
A man, he's got to be dead not to be excited by her."
-- Jean Negulesco, director of How to Marry
a Millionaire
"Marilyn's a phenomenon of nature, like Niagara Falls and the Grand Canyon.
All you can do is stand back and be awed by it."
-- Nunnally Johnson, producer of How to
Marry a Millionaire
"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, movie critic for The
New York Times
"She had a great natural dignity and was extremely intelligent. She was
also exceedingly sensitive."
-- Edith Sitwell, poet
"Marilyn was history's most phenomenal love goddess."
-- Philippe Halsman, photographer
"She saw herself drowning in Hollywood in 1955 and told her studio, 'I'm
not just wiggling my behind.' Marilyn is not any one thing; she's multidimensional.
As an actress, she has lots of imitators- but only Marilyn survives."
-- Eli Wallach, Marilyn's co-star in The
Misfits
"I saw that what she looked like was not what she really was, and what
was going on inside her was not what was going on outside, and that always
means there may be something to work with. In Marilyn's case, the reactions
were phenomenal. She can call up emotionally what is required for a scene.
Her range is infinite."
-- Lee Strasberg,
creator-director of the Actors Studio
"She is a brilliant comedienne, which to me means she also is an extremely
skilled actress."
-- Sir
Laurence Olivier, co-star of The
Prince and the Showgirl
"She was wonderful. We were taught never to clap at the Actors Studio-it
was like we were in church-and it was the first time I'd ever heard applause
there."
-- Kim Stanley, the actress who originated Marilyn's Bus
Stop role on stage
"Marilyn is as near a genius as any actress I ever knew. She is an artist
beyond artistry. She is the most completely realized and authentic film
actress since Garbo. She has that same unfathomable mysteriousness. She
is pure cinema."
-- Joshua Logan, director of Bus Stop
"Her quality when photographed is almost of a supernatural beauty."
-- Lee Strasberg
"Her work frightened her, and although she had undoubted talent, I think
she had a subconscious resistance to the exercise of being an actress.
But she was intrigued by its mystique and happy as a child when being
photographed; she managed all the business of stardom with uncanny, clever,
apparent ease."
-- Sir
Laurence Olivier
"I've learned about living from her. I took her as a serious actress even
before I met her. I think she's an adroit comedienne, but I also think
she might turn into the greatest tragic actress that can be imagined."
-- Arthur Miller, writer and husband
"Her beauty and humanity shine through.she is the kind of artist one does
not come on every day in the week. After all, she was created something
extraordinary."
-- Arthur Miller
"She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary
sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift. Believe me, in the
last fifteen years there were ten projects that came to me, and I'd start
working on them and I'd think, 'It's not going to work, it needs Marilyn
Monroe.' Nobody else is in that orbit; everyone else is earthbound by
comparison."
-- Billy Wilder, director of Some Like
it Hot and The
Seven Year Itch
"She had flesh which photographed like flesh. You feel you can reach out
and touch it. Unique is an overworked word, but in her case it applies.
There will never be another one like her, and Lord knows there have been
plenty of imitations."
-- Billy Wilder
"She has a certain indefinable magic that comes across, which no other
actress in the business has."
-- Billy Wilder
"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
"Marilyn always dreamt of being an actress. She didn't, by the way, dream
of being just a star. She dreamt of being an actress. And she had always
lived somehow with that dream. And that is why, despite the fact that
she became one of the most unusual and outstanding stars of all time,
she herself was never satisfied. When she came to New York, she began
to perceive the possibilities of really accomplishing her dream, of being
an actress."
-- Lee Strasberg
"The last time I saw Marilyn was in late 1959, when I appeared in Let's
Make Love at Fox. The wide-eyed Marilyn I had
first known was gone. This Marilyn was more beautiful than ever."
-- Milton Berle, comedian
"Marilyn Monroe is the greatest farceuse in the business, a female Chaplin."
-- Jerry Wald, producer
"She listens, wants, cares. I catch her laughing across a room and I bust
up. Every pore of that lovely translucent skin is alive, open every moment-even
though this world could make her vulnerable to being hurt. I would rather
work with her than any other actress. I adore her."
-- Montgomery
Clift, Marilyn's co-star in The
Misfits
"Marilyn is a kind of ultimate. She is uniquely feminine. Everything she
does is different, strange, and exciting, from the way she talks to the
way she uses that magnificent torso. She makes a man proud to be a man."
-- Clark Gable
"She went right down into her own personal experience for everything,
reached down and pulled something out of herself that was unique and extraordinary.
She had no techniques. It was all the truth, it was only Marilyn. But
it was Marilyn, plus. She found things, found things about womankind in
herself."
-- John Huston, director of The Asphalt
Jungle and The
Misfits
"It's a terrible pity that so much beauty has been lost to us."
-- John Huston
"I know people who say 'Hollywood broke her heart,' and all that, but
I don't believe it. She was very observant and tough minded and appealing,
but she adored and trusted the wrong people. She was very courageous-you
know the book Twelve Against the Gods?
Marilyn was like that, she had to challenge the gods at every turn."
-- George Cukor, director
"Nobody discovered her, she earned her own way to stardom."
-- Darryl Zanuck, president of 20th Century Fox
"Her death has diminished the loveliness of the world in which we live."
-- Life magazine
"Marilyn Monroe.the most fragile and loveable legend of all."
-- Look magazine
"She was beautiful and untouched, it was as though she were just beginning."
-- Bert Stern, photographer
"It's my feeling that Marilyn looked forward to her tomorrows."
-- Eunice Murray, Marilyn's housekeeper
"When you look at Marilyn on the screen, you don't want anything bad to
happen to her. You really care that she should be all right.happy."
-- Natalie Wood
"When you speak of the American way of life, everybody thinks of chewing
gum, coca-cola, and Marilyn Monroe."
-- the Russian magazine Nedvela
"Marilyn played the best game with the worst hand of anybody I know."
-- Edward Wagenknecht, author
"She's scared and unsure of herself. I found myself wishing that I were
a psychoanalyst and she were my patient. It might be that I couldn't have
helped her, but she would have looked lovely on a couch."
-- Billy Wilder
"She had such a magnetism that if 15 men were in a room with her, each
man would be convinced he was the one she'd be waiting for after the others
left."
-- Publicist Roy Craft
"She was pure of heart. She was free of guile. She never understood either
the adoration or the antagonism which she awakened."
-- Edward Wagenknecht
"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
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