Colin Clark > Quotes

“My life and most people's lives are a series of little miracles -- strange coincidences which spring from uncontrollable impulses and give rise to incomprehensible dreams. We spend a lot of time pretending that we are normal, but underneath the surface each one of us knows that he or she is unique.”
― Colin Clark, My Week with Marilyn

“You're not lost in the storm, Marilyn. You are the storm.”
― Colin Clark, My Week with Marilyn

“He worked with her as she was and not as he wanted her to be.”
― Colin Clark, My Week with Marilyn

“Skills are common. Talent is rare.”
― Colin Clark

“The worst thing is to have all that clout and not know your own mind. If she says her (Marilyn Monroe's)favorite color is beige, that has to be a definite possibility. Then she will be as dangerous as a Chinese Empress.”
― Colin Clark, The Prince, the Showgirl, and Me: Six Months on the Set With Marilyn and Olivier

“Being efficient is the easy part. Suppressing one's ego completely for hours at a time is really hard.”
― Colin Clark, The Prince, the Showgirl, and Me: Six Months on the Set With Marilyn and Olivier

“Yes, I love you, Marilyn,’ I said desperately, ‘but I love you like I love the wind, or the waves, or the earth under my feet, or the sun coming out from behind a cloud. I wouldn’t know how to love you as a person. If I loved you as a person, then I would want to possess you. But that would be impossible. I could never even dream of possessing you. Perhaps no man can, or should even try. You are like a beautiful force of nature, Marilyn, forever out of reach.”
― Colin Clark

“It wasn't that I'd abandoned her, certainly not in my heart. It's just that there was no one left to save her.

Poor Marilyn. Time had run out.”
― Colin Clark, My Week with Marilyn