Clive James Quotes

I love Marilyn Monroe. I think she was the coolest blonde. I think like me she just didn't care what anyone thinks. She's happy. She's smiling. I don't know, I just always thought she was so beautiful and she just seemed, like, magical.

Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood's Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town. I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.

By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.

My favorite actress is Marilyn Monroe.

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

I still don't buy the idea that I'm a 'sex symbol.'

I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.

I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that.

It's not my plan or whatever in my life to be a sex symbol. It never is. You are who you are, but you can't help what you look like. And when you do a film, like for me, it's just not about that. I would prefer to downplay it. I prefer to downplay the sex appeal.

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

If you look good, you can act in a Bollywood movie, you don't have to be able to act; and Aishwarya Rai is a great example of this. She is a beautiful woman... You look at her, I want to look at her. Damn, she is fine; but stop acting or stop trying to act.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable being considered a sex symbol, especially after you work with someone like George Clooney.

These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.

The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'

I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?

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

I don't consider myself a sex symbol.

When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.

It is disheartening when you read an interview with an actress, and it starts by describing what she is wearing.

Marilyn Monroe was a fabulous dame - fabulous.

I used to have a voice because I was interviewing people and writing, but as soon as I got swept up in the fashion world, I was just a pretty girl at a party wearing a pretty dress.

We should be pointing out people's accomplishments rather than their looks, but if it can promote our band, why not?

When people see me, I might come across as just eye candy.