About Me
"Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer.""People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.""The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just by staring into the sky.""I want to grow old without facelifts...I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know yourself.""With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself -for survival and living day to day with what comes up.""I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.""I 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"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"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 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." Josh Logan"She had a great natural dignity and was extremely intelligent. She was also exceedingly sensitive."Edith Sitwell"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"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"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"She seemed very shy, and I remember that when the studio workers would whistle at her, it seemed to embarrass her." Cary Grant"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
