Elizabeth Taylor Quotes

You should never meet your heroes.

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

If you're an actor, there's going to be a sense of fantasy about yourself, especially in the celebrity world we live in today. You give the illusion of being in control, sexy, at ease, with never a difficult moment. Those are the basic lies that all celebrities tell. For me, they're the more dangerous lies to come to terms with.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

For the same reason we have the Brad Pitts and the George Clooneys, it's just part of human nature to idolize stereotypes.

You can almost convince yourself that you've accomplished things just by thinking about them. The alternative is to be more realistic. You don't necessarily regard the dreaming process as bad or an obstacle, but it's not realistic enough.

As a general rule, fans and idols should always be kept at arm's length, the length of the arm to be proportionate to the degree of sheer idolatry involved. Don't take a Beatle to lunch. Don't wait up to see if the Easter Bunny is real. Just enjoy the egg hunt.

When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.

Because celebrities' lives are so visible, I think it makes it look lighter than it is.

The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

There are so many glamorous actresses, but you know what? In the real world, nobody looks like that.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

Frank Sinatra discovered me at a nightclub called P.J.'s in Hollywood. It was 1962. He used to come in there a lot with all his big star friends. I was so nervous to see him. I've only had one idol in my life, and that was Frank Sinatra.

Hollywood is an image. We project these fantasies on to it, but people are just people.

I think sometimes fans or people kind of get confused. They think these athletes or superstars aren't human, but they are.

See, every thing in show business is a lie. It ain't all it's cracked up to be. You are in situations where you are forced to think that you are better than everybody else because of the pedestal the fans place you on. It's a lie. This is just a job, a high-profile job. You have to keep that in perspective and not get caught up in the hype.

I don't really get star struck.

People see the celebrity lifestyle and assume everything is perfect, but we're just like everyone else.

You don't get to be in the squad unless you're six feet tall, a supermodel, perfect, famous, and hot. That's like hand selecting perfection, putting it into a group of girls, and saying, 'Look how amazing we are.'

I think now we just know way too much about our celebrities. It's not that interesting when you know that much about people.

..there she is, and I am watching her through plexiglass, and she looks like Margo Roth Spiegelman, this girl I have known since I was two–this girl who was an idea that I loved. And it is only now, when she closes her notebook and places it inside a backpack next to her and then stands up and walks toward us, that I realize that the idea is not only wrong by dangerous. What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person.

I've been hearing it a lot, especially in the last few years; people will say things to me like "Well, if only I was like you in that movie," or "If only I could be with someone like you in that movie." And, you know, it's very flattering to hear that.

Baby she look like a star, but only on camera, only on camera, only on camera.