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Elizabeth Taylor

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vintagegal:

Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Raintree County (1957)

“I asked it of Julius Caesar. I demand it of you!”

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Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Suddenly, Last Summer (1959, dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz) Photographer: Burt Glinn (via)

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Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor aka Elizabeth Taylor | February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011 

I have often have wondered what kind of a person I would be today if I did not have these enormous guilts — if everything had gone easily and I had not made such horrific mistakes. I think I would have been the most awful, pontifical goody two shoes. I was really so smug, so sweet, so good, so spoiled — so intolerant of anybody else’s downfall. But tragedy, mistakes, and shame for your mistakes cannot leave you untouched. All the superficial things that one gave so much value to before — money, luxury, indulging in whims — calamity makes them seem so incidental. I swear to God I’d be just as happy living with Richard and the kids in a shack. And I treat the happiness I have now with great respect, great appreciation, because I know how fragile and precarious it is — how easily it can go.

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vintagesonia:

Candid of Elizabeth Taylor, taken by Bob Willoughby on the set of Raintree County (1957)

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Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor | February 27, 1932 - March 23, 2011

I’ve been through it all, baby, I’m mother courage.

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Cleopatra - Elizabeth Taylor wearing a pastel blue dress with white tulle duster.

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missavagardner:

I don’t entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I’m me. God knows, I’m me.

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Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton & Ava Gardner on the set of “The Night of the Iguana”, 1963.

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Elizabeth Taylor with her daughter Maria Burton, 1964.

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I was always fascinated to observe the interplay between Richard and Elizabeth. If he was gifted, eloquent, openly persuasive, she was subtle, quietly convincing. In a sense they always competed with each other - but at best the interaction was healthy, open and humorous. Richard used to say with pride that Elizabeth could get what she wanted merely by look or gesture. I witnessed it - it was true. And her charisma worked with me as well.  —Richard Burton’s older brother David Jenkins

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