Elizabeth Taylor

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

If you look at my CV, just about everything I have done has come through a publicly funded institution; it is a career entirely built on that sort of support.