Tributes in quotes of them have knew her, or admirators
" She was as well beautiful as unbearable. And, however, it was the unique film creature that I knew "
" Maybe it was difficult to work with her, maybe she was not an actress. But it was worth of a week of agonies to have these brilliant three minutes on the screen. "
"The luminosity of that face! There has never been a woman with such voltage on the screen, with the exception of Garbo. "
Billy Wilder
" It was a magnificent girl and to tighten I hoped for ardement that we would finish together the film. It was also a big star. "
Dean Martin
" She was a rare woman. Numerous persons, me including made the unforgivable error not to understand her and to appreciate her as it deserved her.And Marilyn wanted terribly all this: be understood and appreciated. She would have been able to continue to live only on these conditions. "
Marlon Brando
" What most amazed me, it is that behind this fabulous legend which amounts for the whole world in a single first name: Marilyn, there is especially a true woman with a glance of child... And it is for it that I like her. "
" She wanted to be a big comedienne. But it was difficult for her tremendous beauty, which was a very healthy beauty, farmer's beauty if I may say, it was difficult for her, I say, to play roles dramactic with a childgirl voice.
Yves Montand
"... Removed make-up, without false lashes, barefoot, what compressed her a little, she had the face and the look of the most beautiful farmers of the Ile-de-France such as for centuries we sang them. "
Simone Signoret
" It is a big loss for all in the profession and for the public. It was a person full of talent as well as a warm being. "
Henry Fonda
" It is a terrible loss for her friends and admirers. It was a born actress... "
Deddie Reynolds
" It was it Marilyn Monroe. A miserable girl, who, throughout her life, attracted the sympathy, the interest, because she had been, or because she had considered a child, fallen back. "
Françoise Giroud
" I am profoundly affected. Everybody of the entertainment has to cry its loss. There was no two as her. "
Gene Kelly
" I do not believe that by for a long time, the 7th art discovers such a " animal of cinema ". Everything in Marilyn was fascinating. Nobody will replace her to my opinion. The whole world her will cry. "
Jayne Mansfield
" She(it) was in search passionate person of a meaning to be offered to the life. And she was more visceral than a returned stomach. Being with her we did not want to die. She was completely a woman, the woman most fémininement society woman... "
Arthur Miller
"It's amazing. She's Mae West, Theda Bara and Bo Peep all rolled into one."
Groucho Marx
"If she'd been dumber, she'd have been happier. "
Shelley Winters