The Eulogy

"Despite the heights and brilliance she attained on the screen,
she was planning for the future: She was looking forward to particpating
in the many exciting things which she planned. In her eyes and in mine,
her career was just beginning. The dream of her talent, which she had nurtured
as a child, was not a mirage. When she first came to me I was amazed at the
startling sensitivity which she possessed and which had remained fresh
and undimmed, struggling to express itself despite the life to which she
had been subjected. Others were as physically beautiful as she was, but there
was obviously something more in her, something that people saw and recognized
in her performaces and with which they identified. She had a luminous quality -
a combination of wistfulness, radiance, yearning - to set her apart and yet
made everyone wish to be part of it, to share in the childish naivete which
was once so shy and yet so vibrant. This quality was even more evident when she
was on the stage. I am truly sorry that the public who loved her did not have
the opportunity to see her as we did, in many of the roles that foreshadowed
what she would have become. Without a doubt she would have been one of the
really great actresses on the stage."

                     ---Lee Strasberg, August 8th 1962


Photo by Andre DeDienes

"Those people that have been writing all those lies about me.
All I know, it's their problem. Those people, I don't even know them,
or if we have met, it's been brief. Can I take it?
Are you kidding? I'm used to it, and remember the old saying...
...consider the source."

-Marilyn Monroe

"Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.
I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity."

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