"Her death has diminished the loveliness of the world in which we live." --
Life magazine
"Marilyn played the best game with the worst hand of anybody I know." -- Edward Wagenknecht, author
"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."-- Lee Strasberg, creator-director of the Actors Studio
"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´m not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful."
"She had a great natural dignity and was extremely intelligent. She was also exceedingly sensitive." --
Edith Sitwell, poet"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 "Nobody discovered her, she earned her own way to stardom." --
Darryl Zanuck, president of 20th Century Fox"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'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
"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."--
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