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Quotes about her

Some wonderful quotes said by other people that are about miss Monroe.

• "Marilyn told me she loved the beach, and when i suggested we take a series of photographs at Santa Monica beach, she was thrilled. That particular beach brought back memories from her childhood when she had spent many wonderful days there with her mother and her friends." - George Barris, friend and photographer he is mostly known for taking the last ever photo of Monroe before her death.

• "The sound of Marilyn's voice still rings true in my ears. Once you heard it in person, you'd never forget it." - Lawrence Schiller.

• "Marilyn had an incredible charisma that was so rare, I don't think I've seen anything quite like it. She had a lot of talent as an actress and she used that talent to the best of her ability as well as her skills as a comedienne, which worked out marvelously for her as with that combined, she created that certain magic on film. I loved working with her and a lot of people say that is clear in our scenes together. I absolutely adored her and we got on wonderfully." - Jack Lemmon, co-star for Some Like it Hot.

• "Bus Stop was her comeback film. And I thought she was magnificent in it, although she was always late on the set and she had a hard time remembering her lines. She also had a very short concentration span: she would start a scene and stop in the middle because she forgot her lines. So she had to do all her scenes in tiny, little pieces because she couldn't sustain a scene all the way through. We never saw a complete scene with her. All the actors in the film came from the stage, like Hope Lange and I, Arthur O'Connell, Eileen Heckart – everyone in the film – so we were used to having a continuous performance and we would go to the rushes to see yesterday's work. We would see all these little pieces and we thought the film was going to be a disaster. However, the first time we saw it at a preview, all of a sudden we realized what the magic of films was, with the editing and cutting it all together: she was magnificent! I never understood why she was not nominated [for an Academy Award] for Bus Stop" - Don Murray, co-star for Bus Stop.

• "Norma Jeane was always a butterfly. She was beautiful all of her life, within and without. During our courtship and marriage I never stopped loving to be with her, to stare at her, to laugh with and love her. We had a wonderful, joyful marriage. But in the end, it was not enough for Norma Jeane. Like all beautiful butterflies, she had to fly away." - James Dougherty, Monroe's first husband.

• "Marilyn was history's most phenomenal love goddess." - Philippe Halsman, photographer

• "Marilyn is as near a genius as any actress I ever knew. She is an artist beyond artistry. She is the most completely realized and authentic film actress since Garbo. She has that same unfathomable mysteriousness. She is pure cinema." - Joshua Logan, director of Bus Stop

• "She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift. Believe me, in the last fifteen years there were ten projects that came to me, and I'd start working on them and I'd think, 'It's not going to work, it needs Marilyn Monroe.' Nobody else is in that orbit; everyone else is earthbound by comparison." - Billy Wilder, director of Some Like it Hot and The Seven Year Itch

• "They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroe's and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original." - Billy Wilder

• "She had flesh which photographed like flesh. You feel you can reach out and touch it. Unique is an overworked word, but in her case it applies. There will never be another one like her, and Lord knows there have been plenty of imitations." - Billy Wilder

• "She has a certain indefinable magic that comes across, which no other actress in the business has." - Billy Wilder

• "Marilyn is a kind of ultimate. She is uniquely feminine. Everything she does is different, strange, and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso. She makes a man proud to be a man." - Clark Gable, co-star for "The Misfits"

• "She listens, wants, cares. I catch her laughing across a room and I bust up. Every pore of that lovely translucent skin is alive, open every moment-even though this world could make her vulnerable to being hurt. I would rather work with her than any other actress. I adore her." - Montgomery Clift, co-star in The Misfits

• "Marilyn Monroe is the greatest farceuse in the business, a female Chaplin." - Jerry Wald, producer

• "She went right down into her own personal experience for everything, reached down and pulled something out of herself that was unique and extraordinary. She had no techniques. It was all the truth, it was only Marilyn. But it was Marilyn, plus. She found things, found things about womankind in herself." - John Huston, director of The Asphalt Jungle and The Misfits

• "It's a terrible pity that so much beauty has been lost to us." - John Huston

• "It's my feeling that Marilyn looked forward to her tomorrows." - Eunice Murray, Marilyn's housekeeper

• "Her death has diminished the loveliness of the world in which we live." - Life magazine

• "Marilyn Monroe...the most fragile and loveable legend of all." - Look magazine

• "Nobody discovered her, she earned her own way to stardom." - Darryl Zanuck, president of 20th Century Fox