#marilyn

Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#failure #marilyn-monroe #perseverance #courage

Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#ever #friends #i #item #lived

If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul. ↗

— Clifford Odets

#depression #marilyn-monroe #suicide #death

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. ↗

— Richard Widmark

#act #bag #became #because #between

try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#life #marilyn-monroe #miserable #life

Yet I was Marilyn Manson - times 10. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#manson #marilyn #marilyn manson #times #yet

Ever since Marilyn Monroe was transformed from one of the prettiest girls you could ever hope to see into an icon, everyone has been trying to repeat that icon. And now the entire industry is filled with, and by and large run by, wannabes. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#could #entire #ever #everyone #filled

Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman. ↗

— Lawrence Schiller

#astute #blond #bombshell #businesswoman #dumb

You constantly felt like you wanted to protect her and that you wanted to save her and that's what made her attractive more so to women than even to men. That's why she's still with us. Marilyn Monroe never offended a woman. ↗

— Lawrence Schiller

#constantly #even #felt #her #like

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#walking