Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroewas an American actress and model. Famous for playing "dumb blonde" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s, emblematic of the era's attitudes towards sexuality. Although she was a top-billed actress for only a decade, her films grossed $200 million by the time of her unexpected death in 1962. She continues to be considered a major popular culture icon...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth1 June 1926
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
My arrival in school, with painted lips and darkened brows, started everybody buzzing. Why I was a siren, I hadn't the faintest idea. I didn't want to be kissed, and I didn't dream of being seduced by a duke or a movie star. The truth was that with all my lipstick and mascara and precocious curves, I was as unresponsive as a fossil. But I seemed to affect people quite otherwise.
Everyone’s childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand. By this I don’t know if I’m just giving up with this conclusion or resigning myself — or maybe for the first time connecting with reality. How do we know the pain or another’s earlier years, let alone all that he drags with him since along the way at best a lot of leeway is needed for the other — yet how much is unhealthy for one to bear. I think to love bravely is the best and accept -— as much as one can bear.
Why haven't I the right to grow and expand like everybody else?
To a reporter: Please don't make me a joke.
Even though I was born there, I still can't think of one good thing to say about it. If I close my eyes, and picture LA, all I see is one big varicose vein.
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I'm just a girl who wishes for the world.
Blond hair and breasts, that's how I got started. I couldn't act. All I had was blond hair and a body men liked. The reason I got ahead is that I was lucky and met the right men.
Every morning I walk across my apartment rolling an empty soda bottle between my ankles, in order to preserve my balance.
Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman? A woman who can have a family ... I'd settle for just one baby. My own baby.
No one ever called me pretty when I was a little girl
Mv first contract with 20th Century-Fox was like my first vaccination. It didn't take.
My great ambition is to have people comment on my fine dramatic performances.
The only person I know who is in worse shape than I am (on Montgomery Clift).