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
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.
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.
hate voice want
I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet.... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short.
thinking want causes
I want it all quickly 'cause I don't want God to stop and think and wonder if I'm getting more than my share.
people use want
I use my fame now when I want to help a cause or other people.
none sit
There's still so much more to do, ... I can't sit back and be complacent, and none of us should be. I get around now in a wheelchair, but I get around.
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She belongs to a Temperance Society and wears one of those badges in the shape of a bow of ribbon to show that she would never take a drink, not even brandy if she were dying. Of course by temperance they all mean the opposite - total abstinence.
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.
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.
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].
beautiful great-love lucky
I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things.