Sherilyn Fenn Quotes

I just feel a connection with Marilyn Monroe. I just love her. I just completely feel what she went through.

Marilyn Monroe appeared to be perfect, but she wasn't perfect.

I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe.

I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses.

I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.

I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.

I like Marilyn Monroe; she was super glam, weren't she?

Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn't surprise me at all.

I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.

I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.

I basically read every book ever written about Marilyn Monroe.

Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.

I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the material as if it were myth - that Marilyn Monroe is like this mythical figure in our culture.

All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.

Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.

It makes me sad; I had to stop seeing my fans. It is like mental self harm to go and read my DMs.

I like the legend behind him. James Dean symbolizes the young actor's dream. He struggled to get into Hollywood. He shot to fame at the age of 24 but only got to star in three films. It's kind of a fantasy of what could have been.

Even being close to L.A., I was always inspired by old movies and Marilyn Monroe and the glamour of Hollywood.

Marilyn [Monroe] was really mistreated.

Britney [Spears]'s actually kind of like a broken-down shell of a human being, that's what makes her so endearing and compelling.

[Marilyn Monroe] was a bit temperamental, a little diva-like, but she didn't deserve what she got.

The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.

Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than on…there was something touching and appealing about her.

As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

I love that old glamour look. I think it's because I grew up on it.