#marilyn

I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#marilyn-monroe #my-story #change

Candle In the Wind Author: Bernie Tauplin Goodbye Norma Jeane. Though I never knew you at all. You had the grace to hold yourself While those around you crawled. And they crawled out of the woodwork, And they whispered into your brain, They set you on the treadmill And they made you change your name. And it seems to me you lived your life Like a candle in the wind, Never knowing who to cling to When the rain set in. And I would have liked to have known you But I was just a kid, Your candle burned out long before Your legend ever did. Loneliness was tough. The toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar And pain was the price you paid. Even when you died The press still hounded you- All the paper had to say Was that Marilyn was found in the nude. Goodbye Norma Jeane. Though I never knew you at all. You had the grace to hold yourself While those around you crawled. Goodbye Norma Jeane. From the young man in the 22nd row Who sees you as something more than sexual, More than just our Marilyn Monroe. ↗

— Elton John

#elton-john #lyrics-in-a-song #marilyn-monroe #norma-jeane #poetry

He had a new girl, and I told him she looked like Marilyn Monroe. He smiled because he thought I meant she was beautiful, and I smiled because I meant she looked like a corpse.
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— Jarod Kintz

#beautiful #beauty #bizarre #corpse #dating

If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too. ↗

— Simone Signoret

#good #good taste #him #husband #i

There is nothing positive about being fat. And there is nothing positive about loving yourself. We all need to conform to society's expectations of who we are, because if we don't, who will? Life is more enjoyable when you are thin and pretty. I was never fat a day in my life and I never will. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#fat #marilyn-monroe #self-esteem #size-zero #ugly

I closed my eyes. Long before I was in any movie, I was Norma Jeane. I decided I missed those days when I was penniless but still had hope. ↗

— Tara Hanks

#movies

I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#her #i #loved #marilyn #marilyn monroe

I always loved the style of Jean Seberg, Jane Birkin and Marilyn Monroe. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#i #i always #jane #jean #loved

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell. ↗

— Sherilyn Fenn

#aspects #been #certain #drawn #her

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. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#andy #best #campbell #did #example