Decided Quote by Eli Wallach

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

— Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn is a kind of ultimate. She is uniquely feminine. Everything she does is different, strange, and exciting, from the way she talks to…

— Clark Gable

Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was…

— Richard Widmark

When you've experienced the real Marilyn, it's difficult to watch a movie about her.' I didn't want to have the memories of my experience…

— Lawrence Schiller

Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent…

— Clark Gable

Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than…

— John Huston

She went right down into her own personal experience for everything, reached down and pulled something out of herself that was unique and extraordinary.…

— John Huston

You know, I don't think anyone ever knew anyone like Marilyn, really. I've never known another girl like Marilyn Monroe.

— Cyd Charisse

“Ever notice how ‘What the hell’ is always the right answer? Marilyn Monroe”

— Leslie Braswell

I don't know why you people [the press] like to compare me to Marilyn or that girl, what's her name, Kim Novak. Cleavage, of…

— Jayne Mansfield

The last time I saw Marilyn was in late 1959, when I appeared in Let's Make Love at Fox. The wide-eyed Marilyn I had…

— Milton Berle

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

— Marilyn Monroe