Woolf Quotes

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

I fought to keep the integrity of the story (The Elizabeth Taylor Story) because the producer was bringing in a writer that was making it very soapy. They wanted many scenes of her when she was very overweight. I said, `I`m not doing that. I`ll do one. That`s not this woman`s life.` For me it was just: I didn`t want to make an impression. I just tried to play the truth of the woman. Not the legend, not the stories that we hear about her. Because even when she was a child, you were seeing a version of her that was manipulated by the studios, so you didn`t really see her. I thought the closest she ever came to revealing herself was Who`s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), and she lost herself in that role. It was cathartic for her to do that in a lot of ways, to let herself be that wild - on portraying actress Elizabeth Taylor in Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story (1995) (TV)

Mrs Woolf`s complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me.