I saw the end of the general magazine business at the end of the '70s, and I knew I had to move into another profession when the advertising dollar m…

- Lawrence Schiller

Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.

- Lawrence Schiller

The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it’s going to take plac…

- Lawrence Schiller

There are major writers who have written books [based on my research]. If one looks carefully at the copyright page, you'll see my name. Writers of t…

- Lawrence Schiller

A close friend of mine, Annie Leibovitz, who I've known for forty years, photographs celebrities every single day of the week but they all seem to lo…

- Lawrence Schiller

Am I missing something because of my lack of education? Being an intellectual - I'm not. So I hire him as a corner man, like a boxer; he watches me a…

- Lawrence Schiller

I never considered myself a good photographer. I still don't. I thought of myself as a hard worker. My camera was a sponge and I had an instinct that…

- Lawrence Schiller

I've had failures, don't get me wrong, but it wasn't beneath me to pick up the phone and introduce myself to Bernard Malamud and say, "I'd like to in…

- Lawrence Schiller

I knew Marilyn over a two-year period. I met her first on a movie called 'Let's Make Love.' I photographed her at that time on and off through the ti…

- Lawrence Schiller