- [last lines]
- Elizabeth Taylor: [from a recording of a 1985 interview] Now, I find life so exciting. There's so many things to do now, so many things to learn. And I'm doing that now. If I want to go someplace, I *go.* If there's something I want to study, I'll *study it* now. I'm not under obligation to *anyone*
- [pause]
- Elizabeth Taylor: but myself. And to thine own self be true. That's all I have to do.
- Elizabeth Taylor: [voiceover from a recording of a 1964 interview by journalist Richard Meryman, on winning the 1961 Oscar® for Best Actress in a Leading Role for 'BUtterfield 8' after she contracted pneumonia while filming 'Cleopatra' and had major lung-and-throat surgery] 'BUtterfield 8' was my fourth nomination in a row. And I won the award for my tracheotomy.
- Richard Meryman, Interviewer: Do you really feel that?
- Elizabeth Taylor: Yes, I do. It must have been some kind of sympathy thing because I think the film is so embarrassing. It's just dreadful.