Jun 1, 2025
I bought books to read. I sneaked scripts off the set and sat up alone in my room reading them out loud in front of the mirror. And an odd thing happened to me. I fell in love with myself—not how I was but how I was going to be. I used to say to myself, what the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe? And I’d answer, “Everything, everything.” And I’d walk slowly and turn my head slowly as if I were a queen. - My Story (Marilyn Monroe, with Ben Hecht, 1974)
Norma Jeane Mortenson (aka Marilyn Monroe) June 1st, 1926 - ∞
