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
real people suffering
Acting is, to me now, artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn't be more real. Some people don't like to look at it in the face because it's painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done.
real reality sweat
I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.
friendship real scandal
You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
divorce home littles
I left home as soon as I could, when I was 18. I thought I was in love and got married - the press called it Prince Charming and Cinderella. He was a Hilton so I was the poor little Cinderella. And when I got a divorce nine months later I never told the court why, but he was cruel.
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.
directors film speak
On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him.
gymnastics want force
It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.
character laughing people
To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the director says, "Action!" Then you snap your mind into shape and into the character that you're playing and relate to the people that you're acting with and forget everybody else that you've been joking with.
running fun acting
Acting is fun. It's not my whole life. It's not my entire being. It's secondary to my life. My life is primary. I'm running in the primary, as you know.
rocks body heat
I love going to rock concerts, I love to lose myself in that vast wave of rhythm and body heat and get on the same vibe.
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.
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.
husband jewels doe
I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands. For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else.
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.