Dame Quote by Jerry Lewis

Marilyn Monroe appeared to be perfect, but she wasn't perfect.

— Janet Varney

Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.

— Otto Preminger

I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!

— Mamie Van Doren

Marilyn Monroe and Vivienne Leigh are real icons of mine. In terms of visual culture, they are both so iconic. There weren't any paparazzi…

— Lily Cole

If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to…

— Stephen Hawking

I danced with Marilyn Monroe in 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.'

— Robert Fuller

Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of…

— Mamie Van Doren

My favorite actress is Marilyn Monroe.

— Elle Fanning

The word 'success' - who's defining it? It's about whether or not it makes me feel good. Four billion people don't have to see…

— Grace Slick

In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where…

— Edmund White

Americans are obsessed with wild, outlandish things. Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse, and Michael Jackson are all wild, outlandish things.

— Lily Koppel

I remember writing 'The One I Can't Have' at the kitchen table. I was looking at a picture of Truman Capote with Marilyn Monroe…

— Teddy Thompson