#monroe

When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star. ↗

— Sally Kirkland

#because #give #glamorous #growing #growing up

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#kill #killing #marilyn #marilyn monroe #monroe

One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise. ↗

— Clifford Odets

#alone #always #did #down #first

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#courage

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