"I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe"
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The subtext is sharper because we know what “Marilyn Monroe” really means in American culture: a brand of radiant visibility that doubles as a trap. Monroe is both icon and warning label, a symbol of how women are elevated through a very specific kind of look, then punished for being human inside it. When Stone says she “told everyone,” it reads like self-mythmaking in real time, a young girl practicing the most Hollywood skill of all: pitching a persona until it becomes plausible.
Context matters: Stone came up in an industry still obsessed with Monroe’s template - the blonde bombshell as shorthand for sexual capital and marketability - while also entering during an era when actresses were beginning to weaponize that template, turning objectification into leverage. Her statement captures the double bind: to win, you have to speak the language of glamour; to survive, you have to rewrite what it costs.
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Stone, Sharon. (2026, January 16). I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-loved-the-movies-and-i-wanted-to-be-like-95207/
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Stone, Sharon. "I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-loved-the-movies-and-i-wanted-to-be-like-95207/.
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"I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-loved-the-movies-and-i-wanted-to-be-like-95207/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.



