Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBEwas an English-American actress, businesswoman and humanitarian. She began as a child actress in the early 1940s, and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She continued her career successfully into the 1960s, and remained a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. The American Film Institute named her the seventh greatest female screen legend in 1999...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth27 February 1932
people able way
I always wanted to have a fragrance, and I always wanted to be able to connect with people in ways other than through film.
real ideas two
I like the connection with fans and people who have been supportive of me. And I love the idea of real feedback and a two-way street, which is very, very modern.
dream thinking idols
Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.
taken rocks names
A "name" no longer carries a film. People used to go to the cinema to see a "John Wayne film." And you don't have that thing happening now except in the rock world, which has taken the event out of movies.
thinking people theater
Something always made me save myself. Either the Betty Ford Center or going onstage to perform in the theater when many people didn't think I could do it.
impact sometimes throwing
You can always avert throwing yourself in front of an oncoming train. There is something that just pulls you away - and it has pulled me away, because I'm not dead yet - just at the brink of impact. Sometimes I have been really grazed by that train.
girl horse boys
I've always preferred animals to little girls or boys. I had my first horse - actually it was a Newfoundland pony - when I was three, and I loved riding, without anyone shackling me - riding bareback as fast as I could.
waiting-around hands actors
I find it rather tedious working with some actors who have to go into a corner and bounce up and down, shake their hands and arms, saying to the director, "Just a second - I'll be ready in a few minutes, " while all the other actors are waiting around to get in. Then they say, "OK! I'm ready now." And then they come on and do it exactly the same way they've done it in rehearsal.
drinking thinking quality
I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities.
body gypsy wanted
I would totally lose myself in the music and be a gypsy. I would go wherever I wanted to in my head - wherever the music took me. My body followed.
waiting patterns doe
I don't have a set pattern. I take things as they come. Usually with a great amount of relish. I just lay back and wait for it to happen. And it usually does.
order uptight stage
I've always sung in the shower. Now I make the stage a mental shower in order not to get too uptight and enjoy it.
acting lessons technique
I've never had an acting lesson. I've never been given techniques. Everything I've done is invented. I just sort of found out [how to do it].
directors film speak
On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him.