QUOTES BY EDIE:
"Wherever I've been, I've been quite notorious. And quite innocently so."

"I need to dance it out."

"I'm afraid of habit patterns... It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored."

"The real Edie is where the action is. Fast cars, fast horses, and people doing things!"

"The colors... oh, I see the most fantastic things. Do you realize when people just close their eyes what they see? It's unbelievable. Colors and things, forms of every sort. I wonder if that happens for everybody?"

“I do love Alice in Wonderland though. That’s something I think I could do very well. Don’t you think we ought to do an A.W.? A.W.’s Alice in Wonderland? Andy Warhol’s Alice in Wonderland? A.W. stands for a lot of things, I understand. It, uh, it would make a fantastic film. So I wanted somebody to write the script for it, in a modern sense. Think it would be the most marvelous movie in the world. If it could be done. Don’t you think? Really I don’t think they’ve done one since they did a Walt Disney one- which isn’t really doing it. In a sense it is, but not in the way it really should be done. What’s needed right now is a real scene. I mean not just cartoon characters but the actual character of people because there’s so many fantastic people that you might as well use the people.”

"You live alone, creating life as you go."

"I act this way because that's the way I feel like acting. If people like it - fine. If they don't, that's their problem."

"I live a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system."

"I came to New York to see what I could see - that's from a childrens book, isn't it? - and to find the living part."

"I have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident."

"Should I have smiling eyes today?"

"I'd like to turn the whole world on just for a moment. Just for a moment."

"That was a dream? ... It's like my having to walk down thousands and thousands of white marble stairs ... and nothing but very, very blue sky, very blue like ... Yes, and I'd have to walk down them forever. I never thought about going up ... I don't know, don't you think that must mean something? It never occurred to me to turn around. I mean why didn't I think that way? This was after I had the car accident ... I don't know. I think I've run out of time."

"In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem ... Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000 ... I just want you to realize ... I just want to make sure that you know of it now."

"It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way."

"I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself."

"I'm afraid of habit patterns... It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored."

"I'll have to put more earrings on. I bet that someone could analyze me and tell my condition by my earrings..."

"Everything that happened to me has been a paradox for life. The very things that I should have done would have been the trap. The very things I might have given in to, that demanded, that said, this is your life. I mean, this is your only way to survive, are the things I fought hardest to end. 'Cause I believed in something else. You have to work like mad to make people understand... Even if I don't make it, you know, I really insist on believing and then I fall off the edge because there's nobody else to follow it. And I would just fall off the edge..."

QUOTES ON EDIE:
"One person in the sixties fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love." - Andy Warhol

"Edie was a star who by mistake got incarnated into a human body, and never could figure it out and wanted to get back up there." - John Anthony Walker

"Edie seemed born yesterday. She seemed very bright and very eager for life, for the things of the mind and the thigns of the heart, and seemed like a fresh, joyous creature, experiencing life for the first time." - Donald Lyons

"There was a young man at Harvard and what he said was, 'Every boy at Harvard was trying to save Edie from herself.' And that's the quality I think she had, of being quite vulnerable and quite odd, maybe sort of a little loony but very beautiful and very, very attractive. And that, more than her physical appearance, had to do with her great appeal to guys." - Fred Eberstadt

"It was known that she had a grim background. But she was herself free, and seemed a creature of the sunlight, with a darkness behind her that we knew no details about." - Donald Lyons

"Despite her limited education, she had a keen and intelligent sense of humor. Not intellectual but intelligent." - Ed Hennessey

"She was the most talented young person I've taught art to. She'd come in late and very tired. She'd have her friends come in, and pretty soon more came. She was very insecure about men, though all the men loved her. She was chic and adorable. Pretty soon my life was Edie because I couldn't do anything else." - Lily Saarinen

"She was really living day by day largely. And that also explains why she got into that wild world in New York. I don't think she was on a very clear path, but she had many talents, and a complicated background, and not a very driven sense of the future, but just a lot of abilities and enthusiasms." - Bartle Bull

"There was always about Edie a certain spiritual quality, a certain ethereal quality. Edie was not a young girl in search of a boyfriend. Edie was not Elizabeth Bennet, though she would've been a very nice Jane Austen character. She was a flighty, darty sort. More like a Greek nymph than a winning bride." - Donald Lyons

"She seemed snappy, kind of, she was quick, she was alert. She was quick on the uptake, do you know what I mean?" - Chase Mellen

"She loved the thing sshe did not know. She was eager to learn, not in the way of a pupil, but somehow in the way of an artist." - Donald Lyons

"She wanted to learn things, she picked up things, she was a vibration and she would pick up on the vibrations, and the meaning of things." - Donald Lyons

"That is unusual, to look like you had just walked out of a fairy tale. She had nothing human about her, just mystery." - Ivy Nicholson

"I think Edie's creation of her persona, of her image, was her art form." - Bibbe Hansen

"To play the poor little rich girl in this movie, Edie didn't need a script - if she needed a script, she wouldn't have been right for the part." - Andy Warhol

"She gave to me the impression of being born just before we met her, and a raging, furious desire to assimilate as much of life as she could." - Donald Lyons

"Absolutely, staggeringly beautiful; you wanted to help her in any way you could. She had that quality. Drew upon your sympathies." - George Plimpton

"She would do almost anything that came into her head." - L.M. Kit Carson

"I think Edie was one of those personages. When you came in contact with her, you came away with a deep impression of her. And then she moved in circles where almost automatically with that impression came a story or some sort of an event or a happening. Everywhere she went things began to buzz and happen around her." - George Plimpton

"She was the very beginning of the whole unisex trip." - Betsey Johnson

"She compressed an awful lot of life into a short period of time, so by the time we get to the end she's used up a lot." - John Palmer

"[Edie's death] was sad but not shocking. There was something about Edie that said, 'This is a one-act play. It's not going to go on forever.'" - Fred Eberstadt

"I think she's one of those people that you think back on and what flashes in your mind is an instant image. You remember friends who've gone or died. You remember certain aspects of them. You remember the image of Edie, the face. Large eyes. Painless, the pale hair. And then you remember the sadness, too, this exquisite young girl who had been so troubled, had so much help, and was extinguished by what she couldn't control." - George Plimpton