Zitat des Tages über Elizabeth Taylor:
Some directors are really strong on action, manhandling you around the set; others are very focused on setting up the camera shots and practically ignore you. You have to get used to introverts, extroverts, directors who clown around for the crew, and the odd one who's monosyllabic.
I said I would get better with each baby, and I have.
England used to be known for making beautiful things. Then we became the rag trade, known for our street fashions, which were picked up around the world. I want us to be recognized for quality. We have the hands to make the clothes. What we need is the motivation.
I love to cook. I could never give that up.
As a kid, I was a dancer in Dick Whittington, Snow White and Cinderella. When I was 14, I played Baby Bear. I had a big head on, and you couldn't see my face. My mum was very disappointed.
I don't sleep with happily married men.
People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.
I hate the word wholesome.
A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.
I taught myself to listen and kind of regurgitate what I was surrounded by, and it's been a wonderful tool to have as an actor.
I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and sing and she was very cute. She had something that was so different from what she is at the end of her life and she started in the silent movies and then went into the talkies.
I have disassociated myself from that book.
I feel good in my own skin because I've accepted the fact that I'm me. That's what's so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody's different.
I do things on a whim.
My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.
I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
It's incredibly fun as an actor to get to play different styles and different genres for completely different audiences.
When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.
I'm not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress.
You see a script, and you say, 'Oh, I can play the heck out of that,' talk to your agent, and he says they don't want to see you. That's heartbreaking.
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums.
I was going to go to Macchu Picchu and then I just ended up working the whole year.
I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence.
My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors.
I feel people naturally have a brightness. When that is extinguished by circumstances - be it a wrong marriage or a situation that you cannot leave psychologically - there's something about that dying spark that I'm drawn to playing.
I gave birth to our daughter Coco in Pisa, and it was a wonderful time in all our lives.
Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.
I buy the best fabrics from small mills in Italy. That is the basis for my clothes.
I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.
It was like baptism by fire. There was no school for studying acting. You just have to take it upon yourself to learn from your peers. It's about opening your eyes, listening, and watching.
He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.
Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.
'Calamity Jane' inspired me to be a performer. I still want to be her.
It's that TV thing. You can be in the biggest film of the year and it will still not have the kind of impact a TV series has. Once you're in people's living rooms, that's it. There's no hiding place.
