Expression Quote by Joan Crawford

One of my favorite credits is to say that I worked behind Marilyn Monroe, and I love saying that. She was phenomenal.

— George Chakiris

I'm not someone like Norma Desmond who's harking back to her younger days.

— Winona Ryder

“The first movie star I met was Norma Shearer. I was eight years old at the time and going to school with Irving Thalberg…

— Robert Wagner

I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.

— Raf Simons

“She wore comforting grooves in her head”

— Rainbow Rowell

Everything that I do on stage comes from seeing the Black Crowes in '95 in Charlotte. For 'Let Her Cry,' I was just trying…

— Darius Rucker

“By the time they reached the Queens Highway turnoff, Anna found she liked Sheila more in memoriam that she would’ve guessed.”

— Nevada Barr

“Who’s Norma Jean Mortenson?” “Marilyn Monroe!” “Who’s Marilyn Monroe?” “Sex!”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Oh, I'm impressed with Lorraine Hansberry. She was a genius at whose feet I could sit.

— Ruby Dee

“For instance, the headmistress, Miss Moore. I knew right away that she had come to Antigua from England, for she looked like a prune…

— Jamaica Kincaid

She [Susan Lucci] was extraordinary. She wouldn't look at the scene until you walked in to rehearse it. It was amazing to me. That's…

— Richard Masur

In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have…

— Rufus Wainwright