Marilyn Monroe quotations
I had the radio on.
When asked if she really had nothing on in a calendar photograph – in Time 11 August 1952.
Chanel No. 5.
On being asked what she wore in bed – from Pete Martin’s biography Marilyn Monroe, 1956.
Fame is like caviar. It’s good to have caviar, but not every damned day.
In her final interview, to Life Magazine 3rd August 1962.
Who does she think she is: Marilyn Monroe?
In her final interview, to Life Magazine 3rd August 1962.
I never quite understood it, this sex symbol. I always thought symbols were those things you clash together!
In an interview with Richard Meryman, published as Last Talk With a Lonely Girl in 1962.
I am aware, that I am a woman, and I enjoy being a woman.
In an interview for Movieland Magazine, July 1952.
…and finally, the last words of Marilyn Monroe:
Say good-bye to Pat. Say good-bye to Jack [Kennedy] and say good-bye to yourself because you’re a nice guy.
In a telephone conversation with Peter Lawford, Jack Kennedy’s brother-in-law, August 1962.
