Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.