Elvis Presley Marilyn Monroe Quotes

ELVIS & MARILYN:
The deader they get -
the more money they make. ~ Chocolate Waters

I get tired of playing a guy who gets into a fight, then starts singing to the guy he's just beat up. ~ Elvis Presley

I never expected to be anybody important. ~ Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley was the first and the best. He is my favorite of all time. ~ William J. Clinton

Sharing money is what gives it its value. ~ Elvis Presley

That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop. ~ Marilyn Monroe

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Keep it classy, never trashy, just a lil nasty. ~ Marilyn Monroe

I wanted to be a sex goddess. And you can laugh all you want to. The joke is on me, whether you laugh or not. I wanted to be one -- one of them. They used to laugh at Marilyn when she said she didn't want to be a sex-goddess, she wanted to be a human being. And now they laugh at me when I say, "I don't want to be a human being; I want to be a sex-goddess." That shows you right there that something has changed, doesn't it? Rita, Ava, Lana, Marlene, Marilyn -- I wanted to be one of them. I remember the morning my friend came in and told us that Marilyn had died. And all the boys were stunned, rigid, literally, as they realized what had left us. I mean, if the world couldn't support Marilyn Monroe, then wasn't something desperately wrong? And we spent the rest of the goddamned sixties finding out what it was. We were all living together, me and these three gay boys that adopted me when I ran away, in this loft on East Fifth Street, before it became dropout heaven -- before anyone ever said "dropout" -- way back when "commune" was still a verb? We were all -- old-movie buffs, sex-mad -- you know, the early sixties. And then my friend, this sweet little queen, he came in and he passed out tranquilizers to everyone, and told us all to sit down, and we thought he was just going to tell us there was a Mae West double feature on somewhere -- and he said -- he said -- "Marilyn Monroe died last" -- and all the boys were stunned -- but I -- I felt something sudden and cold in my solar pl ~ Robert Patrick

We're the perfect combination. Colonel's an old carny, and me, I'm off the wall. ~ Elvis Presley

Since my baby left me, I've found a new place to dwell, down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel. ~ Elvis Presley

If you wanna be loved, baby, you've got to love me, too. Oh yeah, cause I an't for no one side love affair. ~ Elvis Presley

If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus. ~ Boy George

If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul. ~ Clifford Odets

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made. ~ Marilyn Monroe

I forgot to remember to forget. ~ Elvis Presley

What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that. ~ Eve Arnold

Later that evening, Norma Jeane said good night to Bill and returned home. Standing before a mirror she picked up a lipstick and scribbled, 'This is the end of Norma Jeane.' Marilyn Monroe was born. ~ Michelle Morgan Spady

I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and play a guitar. He never fell off on that pavement at no 80 mph. ~ Evel Knievel

Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living. ~ Marilyn Monroe

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream. ~ Elvis Presley

Ah just act the way ah feel. ~ Elvis Presley

In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where I fell in love with Marilyn Monroe. I knew that she was the most beautiful woman in the world, and yet she was in pain, in need. She was unhappy. I believed that I could help her. ~ Edmund White

Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.' ~ Marilyn Monroe

I've lived long enough to know that life doesn't always stick to the rules...The perfectly impossible and absolutely ridiculous keep happening all the time. ~ Elizabeth Winder

I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid. ~ Elvis Presley

I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Everybody who's played Marilyn Monroe before has gone down in flames. It's impossible to capture Marilyn Monroe. ~ Harvey Weinstein

I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little. ~ Gina Gershon

I'm completely absorbed by Peter Guralnick's definitive, two-part biography of Elvis Presley: 'Last Train To Memphis' and 'Careless Love.' Meticulously researched, this is a compelling mix of history, myth-busting, and, of course, some timeless music. ~ Mark Billingham

A little less conversation, a little more ACTION. ~ Elvis Presley

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them. ~ Marilyn Monroe

The new acts' major influences were movies and their curvy queens Brigitte Bardot and Marilyn Monroe. With their big blonde hair, ample breasts, and highly fertile hips, these bombshells inspired women everywhere to exxagerate their own voluptuousness. ~ Dita Von Teese

I always felt I was a nobody, and the only way for me to be somebody was to be - well, somebody else. Which is probably why I wanted to act. ~ Marilyn Monroe

I want to say to the people, if I am a star, the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did. ~ Marilyn Monroe