(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."
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."
"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."
"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."
"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?"
"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."
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/marilyn_monroe.html
http://www.paralumun.com/marilynmonroequotes.htm
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe


