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“She was born under the sign of Gemini. And that stands for the good and evil twin. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde both hiding and residing inside her heart. Her good twin was not bad at all. But her evil twin was even better, and showed up to be way too fatal!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Mysterious Murder of Marilyn Monroe

“Marilyn Monroe was a Carefree Scamp and she often felt like she didn’t belong, as if she’d somehow landed on the Wrong Planet. Clearly she wouldn’t phrase it that way, but throughout her life she was searching for members of her own tribe”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“The world is entirely magical, the only illusion is that it isn't...”
― Lydia Andal, Marilyn Monroe, Under the Veil; Autism, Numerology & Norma Jeane

“Fifty years on, we’re still watching her movies and talking about her. That’s not a dumb woman â€� trust me!”
― Lauren Bacall

“From the first time I set eyes on Marilyn, I thought she was just wonderful. On the silver screen, her lovely skin and platinum hair were luminescent and fantastic. I loved the fantasy of it. In the fifties, when I grew up. Marilyn was an enormous star, but there was such a double standard. The fact that she was such a hot number meant that many middle-class women looked down on her as a slut. And since the publicity machine behind her sold her as a sex idol, she wasn’t valued as a comedic actor or given credit for her talent. I never felt that way about her, obviously. I felt that Marilyn was also playing a character, the proverbial dumb blonde with the little-girl voice and big-girl body, and that there was a lot of smarts behind the act. My character in Blondie was partly a visual homage to Marilyn, and partly a statement about the good old double standard.”
― Debbie Harry, Face It

“But as long as one is alive, one can be vital. But you don't give up until you stop breathing.”
― Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words

“The one thing a person wants most in life is usually something basic that money can’t buy.”
― Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words

“Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand. But things weren’t entirely black—not yet. When you’re young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Tuesday you’re laughing again.”
― J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe

“I’ve got a sweet tooth and you are my remedy
I’ve got a game that’s sort of like a parody
You be the Marilyn and I’ll be the Kennedy
We can kiss till our minds reach ecstasy
Stay up until sunrise and make love recklessly”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19

“I've lived long enough to know that life doesn't always stick to the rules...The perfectly impossible and absolutely ridiculous keep happening all the time.”
― Elizabeth Winder, Marilyn in Manhattan: Her Year of Joy

“Some like it hot,
Others like it cold.
I like it bold,
Do you like it not??”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Mysterious Murder of Marilyn Monroe

“I don't mind it being a world of men as long as I was a woman in it.”
― Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words

“I think to love bravely is the best and accept—as much as one can bear”
― Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

“Marilyn Monroe was so much more than just a famous movie star. She was a vulnerable soul, a generous spirit, and a brave soldier in a devastating battle with her own mind. Attempting to explain her difficult journey is the challenge I set for myself with this book. At the heart of the story, I discovered a very different kind of Marilyn, a woman far more complex and serious—and maybe even tragic—than the one I thought I knew.”
― J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe

“For instance, Marilyn once gave him a gold medal as a gift that she’d had inscribed with a quote from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “True love is visible not to the eyes, but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.â€� He took one look at it and said, “What the hell does this mean?”
― J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe

“Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

-Marilyn Monroe, 1958”
― Mike Rothmiller, Bombshell: The Night Bobby Kennedy Killed Marilyn Monroe

“MARILYN: Remember, I said if anybody ever asked you what Marilyn Monroe was really like â€� well, how would you answer them? (Her tone was teaseful, mocking, yet earnest, too: she wanted an honest reply) I bet you’d tell them I was a slob. A banana split.

TRUMAN CAPOTE: Of course, but I’d also say�


(The light was leaving. She seemed to fade with it, blend with the sky and clouds, recede beyond them. I wanted to lift my voice louder than the seagulls cries and call her back: Marilyn! Marilyn, why did everything have to turn out the way it did? Why does life have to be so fucking rotten?)

TRUMAN CAPOTE: I’d say�

MARILYN: I can’t hear you.

TRUMAN CAPOTE: I’d say you are a beautiful child.”
― Truman Capote, Marilyn Monroe: A Beautiful Child

“To write a book about Mickey Mantle and not to show people who he really was doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. So I decided the only way to do this is call it a novel and plow full-speed ahead as to what my interpretation and my estimation of who he was and what was troubling him. This is a very complicated book. It’s hardly just about sex.”
― Peter Golenbock

“If I had known, would I have just walked away? Let it destroy the girl alone instead of both of us.”
― J.I. Baker, The Empty Glass

“The Murder of Marilyn Monroe: Her Lips Were Sealed Until Now - is an Investigative Journal - the format reads more like a documentary with all statements backed-up with official documents-”
― Rick Gentillalli

“I feel like a male version of Marilyn Monroe.”
― Lebo Grand

“Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."

-Marilyn Monroe, 1958”
― Mike Rothmiller, Bombshell: The Night Bobby Kennedy Killed Marilyn Monroe

“I think Marilyn was a very sick woman, a classic schizophrenic,â€� said Johnny Strasberg, son of Lee and Paula. “She was dedicated to love. It’s a thing schizophrenics talk about, love. They’ll do anything for love and, additionally, they are totally infantile; they have no ego, no boundaries, as the rest of us have. The amazing thing about her is that she survived as long as she did. There was enough capacity for life that had she been lucky enough to find a therapist who could treat her problems, she might haveâ€� That’s the tragedy. People loved her. But nobody could say no to her. No one would or could take responsibility for her. They had to cut her off or abandon her, which is the thing she expected. With Marilyn, you’re dealing with an abandoned infant who’s not an infant anymore.”
― J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe

“Champagne Sheets by Stewart Stafford

The little girl who swam with sharks,
Receiver clutched in her dead hand,
A naked, lonely death in a sterile room,
Pill bottles silent witnesses to her end.

Did she jump, or did others push her?
Tabloid gossip for the masses to echo,
Livid without make-up in the mortuary,
Stripped of her last vestiges of privacy.

Her disturbed mother was never there,
She had no siblings or a nurturing father,
True love and children evaded her grasp,
A fragile shell, now a luminary immortal.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Thus, beginning in 1955, a formidable file on Marilyn Monroe also began to accumulate in Washington [...]. They represent some of the most ludicrous waste of paper in history.”
― Donald Spoto, Marilyn Monroe: The Biography

“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I stood on the sidewalk, unable to take my eyes off that hair, those lips, those beautiful eyes, and…everything else.”
― Terry Karger, My Maril: Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan, Hollywood, and Me

“The Misfits
Marilyn întârzia zilnic cu orele la filmare, pentru că lua atâtea tranchilizante, că era cu neputinţă să fie trezită. Pare-se că se simţea trădată de cei trei amanţi, J.F. Kennedy, Yves Montand şi Miller însuşi, care o folosise pentru a-şi repune cariera pe linia de plutire. Iar când ajungea pe platoul de filmare, mare lucru nu reuşea să facă: ori uitase textul, ori avea o privire atât de pierdută, încât regizorul John Huston renunţa să filmeze.
Clark Gable avea cincizeci şi nouă de ani şi nu stătea prea bine cu sănătatea, ceea ce nu-l împiedica să bea doi litri de whisky pe zi şi să fumeze trei pachete de ţigări. Cavaler din şcoala cea veche, nu se enerva niciodată când Marilyn întârzia: se mulţumea s-o ciupească de fund şi s-o îndemne: „La treabă, frumoaso�.
La rândul lui, Montgomery Clift o luase şi el pe băutură şi pe droguri după accidentul care îl desfigurase şi, în plus, nici nu-şi asuma homosexualitatea.
În atare situaţie, John Huston şi-a pierdut şi el interesul pentru lucru şi-şi petrecea toate nopţile la cazino. Intra la unsprezece şi pleca la cinci dimineaţa. Ajunsese să datoreze atâţia bani, că � se zice � a oprit filmările şi a trimis-o pe Marilyn la spital, ca să câştige timp şi să iasă din încurcătură.
A fost o adevărată minune că pe 5 noiembrie 1960 au reuÅŸit să termine filmul. Pesemne că a fost o experienţă dură, căci a doua zi Clark Gable a murit în urma unei crize cardiace. A fost ÅŸi ultimul film al lui Marilyn, care nu după multă vreme a sucombat după o supradoză. Bomboana de pe colivă a fost că VieÅ£i rebele a fost un eÅŸec financiar.”
― Francesc Miralles, Love in Lowercase

“You should see the latest computer-generated movies featuring the long-gone old stars with the new. I've watched the video of Arizona Sunset at least a dozen times."
"Who plays the leads?"
"Humphrey Bogart, Lionel Barrymore, Marilyn Monroe, Julia Roberts, and Tom Cruise. It's so real, you'd swear they all acted together on the set.”
― Clive Cussler, Inca Gold

“As soon as we’d arrived as close to the house as we were allowed to get, a brief Latin phrase came to me. I pronounced it as best I could, and when I saw him staring at me, I explained, “It’s in the tiles above the entryway. It means something like ‘Everyone is welcome here.’â€�
He asked how I knew about that, since I’d never been to the house before, and I told him. “Marilyn’s telling me.�
It was a nice surprise. She was definitely on the Other Side, she definitely had a lot to say, and she was ready to say it to me without preferring to talk through Francine. I can’t judge or comment on its accuracy. I’ll just report what she passed along and leave the rest to you.
She was adamant about the fact that she did not commit suicide. She described being alone in her bedroom that night, taking too many pills and making some blurry phone calls. But she had a clear memory of a man coming in and sticking a needle of what she believed to be Nembutol into her heart.”
― Sylvia Browne, Afterlives Of The Rich And Famous Featuring over 40 stars we have loved and lost