Words Said

“Sometimes I think I was more in control of my life years and years ago, and yet one should make progress; one should learn more every year and become…well, if not happier, then calmer and more able to handle your problems. But I’m not. Sometimes I just seem to make more problems for myself. I do. It makes me feel I haven’t grown up as much as I should have by now."

I've read many different books on the life on Marilyn Monroe & watched tons of different interviews of her & always wondered what makes her absolutely stunning besides the obvious beauty. You can be drop dead gorgeous but you need the charm to make it irresistible & Marilyn definitely had the charm.  Regardless of Marilyn's obvious beauty & fame, she lived a very sad life & wore a smile that seemed to only be masking what she really felt inside. I think we have all been there at least once! We all put on a smile & pretend like we are okay, but really we are fighting with our emotions & trying to make sense of it all. Here's a collection of photographs I love & words written about Marilyn Monroe by either people she worked with or people who knew her.

“I was very, very drawn to her. To me, she was like a golden child. She radiated light and vulnerability. She used to gravitate to me at parties because she knew I was not very secure either. She was fragile. I was very touched by her.” -Jane Fonda

"She was not the usual movie idol. There was something democratic about her. She was the type who would join in and wash up the supper dishes even if you didn’t ask her. "
Carl Sandburg 

She walks like a young antelope, and when she stands up it’s like a snake uncoiling. 
Jerry Wald 

The trouble with Marilyn was she didn’t trust her own judgment, always had someone around to depend on. Coaches, so-called friends. Even me. 
Allan ‘Whitey’ Snyder 

She was a difficult woman, you know. We liked her and we said the nicest things about her and she deserved them; but, she was trouble and she brought that whole baggage of emotional difficulties of her childhood with her. 
Norman Rosten

I have the same problem as Marilyn. We attract people the way honey does bees, but they’re generally the wrong kind of people. People who want something from us – if only our energy. We need a period of being alone to become ourselves. 
Montgomery Clift

She stood for life. She radiated life. In her smile hope was always present. She glorified in life, and her death did not mar this final image. She had become a legend in her own time, and in her death, took her place among the myths of our century. 
John Kobal