Elizabeth Taylor Quotes

I am tough but I have a soft side.

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.

I might look like a tough chick - and I am - but I'm also a hopeless romantic inside.

As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.

There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad.

I may seem a tough guy, but I'm also very sentimental.

A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

On film, I'm very mysterious, but in life I'm very dull.

To kids, I've always been more than just some big tough black guy. I train to be tough - I box and do karate - but underneath all that toughness is a tender man.

I'm portrayed as this tough broad, but I'm not.

Anyone who says they are a hard man - they aren't.

I like characters who have two different things going on, whether it is Robin from 'Top Of The Lake' having that strength juxtaposed with the vulnerability and being in pain, or whether it is Peggy from 'Mad Men' with her naivety and her sort of idiocy at times, combined with her intelligence and courage really to do what she did at that time.

I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

I have a tough personality but then have a very soft side to me. I'm kind of a tomboy, but I throw it together with girly pieces.

On the pitch, I can be really fearless. It's all about performing, and I forget about everything else. When I step off, in real life, I can be a different person. I can feel vulnerable sometimes.

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

I can see how people would just assume I am a no-nonsense kind of girl, you know? But the truth is, it's not who I am. But when I need to be, I can be tough.

I got a rebel side in me, but I'm not mean!

It's hard to be dainty and la la la when you're also supposed to be strong.

On 'Raw,' I'm the big mean girl who goes and beats everybody up; on 'Total Divas,' they will see a softer, vulnerable side of me that definitely isn't seen on 'Raw.'

I think when things get tough, I'm just a little bit soft.

You may be modest and un-egotistical in your life; I'm quite ordinary. But I play big egotistical parts.

I believe every major strength we have can be used against us as a weakness. At the same time, things that people see as weakness can be part of our strength.

That's something that I gotta prove - I don't like being labeled as 'soft.' I'm not soft.