Sharon Tate Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

I don't see any difference between being stark naked or fully dressed - if it's part of the job and it's done with meaning and intention.

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.

I guess I'm too outspoken.

I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly.

I'd like to be an American Catherine Deneuve. She plays beautiful, sensitive, deep parts with a little bit of intelligence behind them.

My whole life has been decided by fate.

My whole life has been decided by fate. I think something more powerful than we are decides our fates for us. I know one thing - I've never planned anything that ever happened to me.

On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?

Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whatever it might be, isn't obvious... at least to me.

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Trivia

Michael Sarne said that Sharon "was a luminous beauty, kind, gentle and a wonderful friend to all who were privileged to know her." He added that she "brought out the best in others and was a human being of extraordinary worth. Her memory is always fresh in my mind."

Malibu Barbie was modeled after Sharon's character 'Malibu' in 1967's film "Don't Make Waves.'

Sharon's favorite make-up for her lips was vaseline, which she kept jars of in her car.

Sharon was born at 5:47 pm-CST on a Sunday

Sharon was originally cast as Billie Jo in the TV show "Petticoat Junction," but walked away from it at the advice of her manager.

Sharon is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

Sharon once went out on a date with actor Jack Palance when she was still in high school in Italy.

Sharon's height was 5'5".

Sharon had brown eyes.

Sharon moved to Los Angeles, in 1962.

Sharon had two younger sisters, Patricia and Deborah.

Sharon's father was a lieutenant colonel in Army Intelligence.

Sharon was 8 months pregnant at the time of her death.