Marilyn Quotes

He (Marilyn Manson) has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original. (Alice Cooper)
But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can. View quote
Pete Townshend
Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was very difficult. You couldn't get her on the set; she didn't know the words. View quote
Richard Widmark
If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best. View quote
Carlos Fuentes
Being blonde now doesn't mean Marilyn Monroe vulnerability. Blonde in the Eighties means being in control. View quote
Kim Wilde
I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe and find my own Clark Gable. View quote
Anna Nicole Smith
We think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America. Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards. View quote
Norman Mailer
I don't know why you people [the press] like to compare me to Marilyn or that girl, what's her name, Kim Novak. Cleavage, of course, helped me a lot to get where I am. I don't know how they got there. View quote
Jayne Mansfield
Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her. View quote
Oscar Levant
For me, it's a compliment to be compared with Marilyn, the unforgettable actress, the most beautiful one of all. But, curves aside, we have very little in common. View quote
Eva Herzigova
I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe. (Elizabeth Hurley)
As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say the name Catherine Deneuve or Brigitte Bardot, or L.A. and the name Marilyn Monroe, it's like standing in Athens, or anywhere in wide-flung Greece, and saying Aliki Vougiouklaki. A huge star - and so little known elsewhere in the world. View quote
Ali Smith
Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own. View quote
Eli Wallach
I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images. View quote
Sammy Hagar
You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that. View quote
Claire Bloom
It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years. View quote
Harold Brodkey
By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14. View quote
Issey Miyake
You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right. View quote
Linda Evans
Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman. View quote
Lawrence Schiller
I knew Marilyn over a two-year period. I met her first on a movie called 'Let's Make Love.' I photographed her at that time on and off through the time of her death. I was 22 years old and she was 34 or 35. View quote
Lawrence Schiller
We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson. (Daisy Berkowitz)
Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle. View quote
Daisy Berkowitz
I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it sounds horrible but when she dies all her pictures are going to be worth triple. But I won't tell you how much I got them for - let's just say it was a lot. View quote
Melanie Brown
I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery. View quote
Pixie Lott
There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is. View quote
Richard Widmark