Top 23 Rollyson Quotes
#1. January 21: Marilyn returns to New York and visits Lee Strasberg.
Carl Rollyson
#3. January 15: Columnist Bob Thomas publicizes Marilyn's doubts about the Something's Got to Give script.
Carl Rollyson
#4. February 5: Laurence Olivier, his agent Cecil Tennant, and playwright Terence Rattigan arrive in New York to discuss with Marilyn a film of The Sleeping Prince, to be produced in London with Olivier and Marilyn in the starring roles.
Carl Rollyson
#5. January 26: Marilyn is invited to attend the Foreign Press Association's First Annual International Film Festival at the Club Del Mar in Santa Monica and creates a sensation by wearing an Idaho potato burlap bag designed for her by Billy Travilla.
Carl Rollyson
#7. We just have to have faith. The good Lord wouldn't give us more than we could bear.
Jim Butcher
#8. April 25: Billy Wilder sends a telegram to Marilyn expressing his delight that she will appear in Some Like It Hot. She is to receive her usual $100,000 fee, plus 10 percent of the profits. She is photographed signing a contract with the film's producer, Walter Mirisch.
Carl Rollyson
#9. A man may rule his household,
And a King govern his land,
But Death walks in the thrall of Cephrael's Hand.
Melissa McPhail
#10. If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance "God".
Jerry A. Coyne
#11. Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles.
Jason Silva
#12. June 27: Sidney Fields is the first columnist to write about Marilyn, commenting in the New York Mirror: "Marilyn is a very lovely and relatively unknown movie actress. But give her time; you will hear from her.
Carl Rollyson
#13. I guess after a certain age, things change and those things or people or friendships that happen in movies, just don't happen in real life.
Alberto Fuguet
#14. April 2: Marilyn purchases a stuffed toy tiger from the San Vincente pharmacy for $2.08.
Carl Rollyson
#15. I take personal responsibility for everything I say.
George W. Bush
#16. The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.
or Samuel Goldwyn
but not the hidden costs behind those achievements. Carl Rollyson compassionately captures the man behind the movie star.
Marion Meade
#17. All the logic seemed to be on our side. The Marine Corps seemed a madness.
Robert Leckie
#18. Life is more than just a bump in the road. All life is sacred.
Donald L. Hicks
#19. May 21: Marilyn reports to Fox for color and wardrobe tests for Niagara.
Carl Rollyson
#20. Pain or love or danger makes you real again....
Jack Kerouac
#22. February 27: Pre-production work begins on Bus Stop.
Carl Rollyson
#23. Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.
Saadi
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