“What I particularly liked about Marilyn was that she didn’t act like a movie star. She was down to earth. Although she was then 28, she looked and acted like a teenager. Sure, she was beautiful and sexy, but there was an almost childlike innocence about her. I was most impressed that Marilyn was always polite and friendly to everyone on the set. She was no phony or snob.”
“When I was a little girl I would pretend I was Alice in Wonderland looking into a mirror, wondering what I would see…I suppose every kid’s imagination takes over. The looking glass can be magical, like acting, in a strange way. Especially when you’re pretending to be someone other than yourself. This did happen when I put my mom’s clothes, tried to fix my hair as she did and powder my face with her big powder puff, and, oh yes, her rouge and lipstick and eye shadow. I would imagine I was sexy, like the top movie star in those days, Jean Harlow.”
