Marilyn Monroe: In her own words

(1/Junho/1926 - 5/Agosto/1962)

Por detrás da estrela, do ícon, da lenda, está a mulher... Entre sorrisos, glamour, sensualidade e muito néon iluminado, existia a luta interior de Norma Jean Mortenson versus Marilyn Monroe. Nada melhor do que as suas próprias palavras para conhecer a pessoa que deu vida ao mito. Em Agosto de 2006 estarão completos 44 anos de saudade. Entretanto, Marilyn continuará a fazer parte do imaginário colectivo, a mover multidões e mais de US$ 2 milhões por ano. Prerrogativas de estrela...

Em 1999 foi eleita a mulher mais sexy do século XX pela revista norte-americana People.

Aos 36 anos, Marilyn Monroe deixou esta vida sem ter encontrado o aspirado amor na sua plenitude, a almejada relação serena e duradoura, sem ter concretizado o sonho de se tornar mãe e envolta pelo desejo intenso de ser reconhecida como actriz séria, capaz de representar Shakespeare e ganhar um Óscar.

Houve já algumas tentivas de dar voz a Marilyn. A mais recente, publicada em Portugal, é a do escritor e professor espanhol Rafael Reig, 13 capítulos que se lêem de um só fôlego desvendando, num diálogo íntimo, a mulher que deu corpo à estrela Marilyn Monroe

As citações foram propositadamente deixadas em Inglês.

"A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night."

"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."

"I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do.
Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress."

"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far."

"I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it."

"In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty."

"An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine."

"What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman? A woman who can have a family ... I'd settle for just one baby. My own baby."

"I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy."

"Sometimes I've been to a party where noone spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeites...the ladies would gang up in a corner and discuss my dangerous character."

"Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him."

"Dogs never bite me. Just humans."

"I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I never had belonged to anything or anyone else."

"I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent."

"Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered."

"No-one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't."

"Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it."

"If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do -look intelligent?"

"Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work."

"That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of."

The only people I care about are the people in Times Square, across the street from the theatre, who can't get close as I come in. If I had light make-up on, they'd never see me. This make-up is for them" (A "produção" de Marilyn levava cerca de 8 horas todos os dias....)

"I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one"

"I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me and that I've made of myself, as a sex symbol. Men expect so much, and I can't live up to it."

"I want to grow old without face-lifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face that I have made."

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself--for survival and living day to day with what comes up."

Poesia e desenhos de Marylin

Jornal publica conversas entre Marilyn Monroe e psiquiatra

Fontes e sites recomendados:

http://www.marilyncollector.com/legend/index.html

http://pserve.club.fr/Marilyn_Monroe_eng.html#Marilyn_eng

http://www.marilynmonroe.com/index.php

http://marilynmonroepages.com/index.html

http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/quotes/a/marilyn_monroe.htm
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/marilyn_monroe.html
http://www.paralumun.com/marilynmonroequotes.htm
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe

A música de Marilyn

Marilyn, as fotos de Eve Arnold (uma das mais reconhecidas fotojornalistas)

Marilyn em entrevista

Marilyn: o fim dos dias

Tudo sobre a morte de Marilyn

Marilyn, 43 anos depois, cai a tese do suicídio

Marilyn age modification - MM hoje, se fosse viva!