"I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. ... Goethe said, "Talent is developed in privacy," you know? And it's true. ... Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever."
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"Marilyn Monroe Pours Her Heart Out" interview by Richard Meryman, in Life (3 August 1962)
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