Quotes about Sharon

"Dear God, she was beautiful. Sharon was more beautiful as a teenager than she was in her twenties; in Europe people would turn around on the street just to look at her."
- Doris Tate (Sharon's mother)

"I know I was horrible at times, I was. I really kept a tight rein on, I had to. I felt fine about Sharon being a star, as long as I was close by. You cannot protect your kids, you just can't. There are twenty-four hours in a day."
- Doris Tate (Sharon's mother)

"Until you have lost a child, you don't know what it is. Parents are supposed to die first. When your child is gone before you for an abnormal reason, it creates a whole abnormal situation... It was three years before I could even... I couldn't even look at Roman. Because, you see, I still expected Sharon to be with him, so I was playing games in my mind...Roman really loved Sharon, I know that, and he was very, very grieved."
- Doris Tate (Sharon's mother)

"This could destroy Roman. Marriage vows mean nothing to him but few men have adored a woman as much as he adored Sharon."
- Laurence Harvey

"While I was working on Downward Spiral, I was living in the house where Sharon Tate was killed. Then one day I met her sister. It was a random thing, just a brief encounter. And she said: 'Are you exploiting my sister's death by living in her house? 'For the first time, the whole thing kind of slapped me in the face. I said, 'No, it's just sort of my own interest in American folklore. I'm in this place where a weird part of history occurred. ' I guess it never really struck me before, but it did then. She lost her sister from a senseless, ignorant situation that I don't want to support. When she was talking to me, I realized for the first time, 'What if it was my sister?' I thought, 'Fuck Charlie Manson.' I went home and cried that night. It made me see there's another side to things, you know?"
- Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails)

"Sharon Tate was my best friend. Once, we were roommates. She introduced me to my husband. She was the godmother to my baby daughter who is named for her. In the six years time that I knew her, she never said an unkind word about anyone."
- Sheliah Wells (friend)

"My friends used to tease me. 'How can you wake up in the morning and look at that face of hers?' It was a good question. Sharon was so over whelmingly, so incredibly beautiful that anyone not knowing her might think it took a lot to live with such a beauty. But you see that was another thing about Sharon. With all her beauty, everyone loved her. I never heard anyone say a bad word about her, not even another actress. And in this town that's not only a rarity, it's an impossibility!"
- Sheliah Wells (friend)

"Sharon was the type of a girl who had no defenses, no pretenses, she was just herself all the time... She was so trusting, so eager to accept people as they were, so generous... Sharon never shut her door to anyone."
- Sheliah Wells (friend)

"She always had a way of finding such goodness in others. If someone hurt her, she'd say, 'Oh, Sheliah, I'm sure they didn't mean to.' She'd always make excuses for others. Sharon was just totally loving and also totally vulnerable. She was just a remarkable person, she never gave up on anybody."
- Sheliah Wells (friend)

"As far as Sharon's marriage was concerned, all I can tell you is that Sharon and Roman were in love. They were a combination of beauty and genius."
- Sheliah Wells (friend)

"She was always going out on a limb for everyone. Everyone but herself. There was an ethereal quality about her. She had this thing I sometimes wished I'd had, even though I knew that eventually it might be bad for me. Do you understand? She had this kind of beauty and fragility, and you just knew she was bound to get hurt because of it. But still you couldn't help but admiring that quality in her. She was just such a special person."
- Sheliah Wells (friend)

"In just the last few months Sharon was beginning to come into her own. She never cared about being beautiful. She never even really cared about acting. She just wanted to love and be loved. And have her baby. I know that if she'd lived and had the baby everything would have been different for her. Because that is what Sharon really wanted. She was just a little girl from Texas who was so incredibly beautiful that she got swept up in all of the Hollywood nonsense. But all she ever wanted was what every woman wants — a man to love and a baby of her own. I can't believe that the murderers knew her. To know Sharon, to really know her, was to love her. There is just no way that anyone who knew her could have hurt her so."
- Sheliah Wells (friend)

"I was with Sharon when she found out she was pregnant. Roman had a negative reaction at first. He was concerned about her career because she was just getting her momentum as an actress."
- Debra Tate (Sharon's sister)

"That evening I was supposed to go up there and pick up a saddle Sharon brought back to me from Europe. She was hugely pregnant and very uncomfortable, as women get just before delivery. I knew how miserable she was, and I knew these other people would probably not be a good idea, so I gave her a courtesy call." As Debra expected, Sharon told her not to come. "She didn’t feel like getting dressed up and putting on makeup."
- Debra Tate (Sharon's sister)

"I hate it. I hate that her beautiful name is linked to Charles Manson."
- Patti Tate (Sharon's sister)

"There was the perfection of her face, of course. And a radiance more usually found in children. There was a capacity for delight. And a directness to her comments. She was not a chatterbox. There was a kindness at the core. She somehow made her friends feel necessary, and they loved her."
- Mia Farrow (friend)

"The imperfect couple. They were the Douglas Fairbanks/ Mary Pickford of our time...cool, nomadic, talented and nicely shocking. Their "Pickfair" was a movable mansion, a roomy rebellion. Curious, unafraid, they helped demolish the ancient Hollywood image of what movie stardom was all about. They became part of the 'anti-establishment' establishment. They became rich but never regal."
- Peter Evans (photojournalist)

"Sharon and I worked together and were good friends and she will always be missed. I support Sharon Tate for a star on The Hollywood Walk Of Fame."
- Tony Curtis (co-star, Don't Make Waves)

"Sharon and I were friends and took acting classes together. I used to show her headshot and say she was my sister and Sharon would do the same. Sharon was a wonderful person and talented actress. I support Sharon for a star on Hollywood Boulevard!"
- Celeste Yarnall

"Sharon Tate was a open, honest, smart and straightforward person. One of the most beautiful people I have ever met in my life, in all ways. I can't emphasize how beautiful she was - inside and out. Sharon was well educated and impressed people with her honesty. She had the greatest attributes a person can have. Sharon never changed from the time she arrived in Hollywood until the day she left us. Sharon was under contract to me from the first picture she made until her last. Sharon worked very hard, she studied her acting to excel as an actress and she did. Her film performances that she left us and the entertainment that they have brought and continue to bring merit Sharon Tate to receive a star on Hollywood Boulevard and I support her all the way!"
- Hal Gefsky (Sharon's agent)

"She was very honest. Of course, she was knock out beautiful. And she was really down to earth and nice to everybody. You couldn't help but be impressed. I thought she would do great. She'd come home with a stack of cards from all the guys in town."
- Hal Gefsky (Sharon's agent)

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

"When I first met Sharon on the set of The Beverly Hillbillies, I thought she was the prettiest girl I had ever seen. Sharon was terrific and I support her for a star on Hollywood Boulevard."
- Max Baer, Jr.

"I worked with Jay Sebring at his salon and I met Sharon Tate through him at Nate and Al's in Beverly Hills. I found Sharon a very beautiful, charming woman who was so sweet and talented. I support Sharon Tate for a star on Hollywood Boulevard!"
- Larry Geller

"I met Sharon at her Cielo home. Jay Sebring took me there to a couple of parties. Sharon was always gracious, very beautiful and very pregnant when I met her. I can see it all in my mind's eye. Sharon was very nice to me and very secure with herself. Sharon was a talented actress and I support Sharon for a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame!"
- Barbara Leigh (actress)

"I wholeheartedly recommend Sharon Tate for a star on the boulevard. While we are at it, I wholeheartedly recommend Sharon for a star as a human being."
- Joey Bishop

"Roman was away somewhere and I stayed for about a week with Sharon. She had a touch of claustrophobia and hated shutting doors. Even in hotels. She was a lovely lady. I remember exactly when that photograph was taken. We had been invited to a charity in, I think, Fresno. It was pretty boring so we decided to leave and called a hired car to take us to the airport. Naturally the act of somebody doing something as exciting as phoning for a cab could not be passed up by the paparrazzi so.."
- Ingrid Pitt

"She was so sweet, so kind, she was talented, too. Taken before her time."
- Barbara Parkins (co-star, Valley of the Dolls)

"I think of Sharon often as pictures of her during our filming of "Don't Make Waves" adorn the walls of my gym in Santa Cruz, California. The members are mesmerized. She's a star in the eyes of my heart not only because of her physical and internal beauty but also for her earthy courage and daring spontaneity. We first met on location in Malibu when we were advised to practice a trampoline dismount for the next film sequence to begin promptly. "Sharon, this is Dave. Dave, this is Sharon. Sharon, I want you to bounce on the tramp high as you can and jump into the arms of Dave standing right here. He's a sturdy fellow. Good." The instructions of Sandy McKendrick, cogent director assuming magic. We smiled, nodded, shook hands and she mounted the trampoline for the first time in her life, both of us revealing our shyness and willingness to please. Any fear or doubts the sweet girl had turned into resolve. Sharon bounced with all her might and within five minutes was leaping through the air like a gazelle. I didn't dare miss her. We were smiles and laughter. First take, "Cut. That's a wrap." I miss her now. A star on Hollywood Boulevard bearing Sharon's name would warm my heart. She has a special place there, indeed."
- Dave Draper (co-star, Don't Make Waves)

"I knew Sharon Tate. Beautiful, naive young girl. I heard it (Sharon's death) over the radio. The shocking story was the sort of thing you read about in fiction, see in movies. It doesn't happen to people you know. It was incomprehensible."
- Kirk Douglas (actor)

"Sharon is a great discovery. First of all, she's a fabulously goodlooking bird and she's got all the fun and spark and go. She's a marvelous girl. She's up on cloud nine, Sharon is. And I think she's a very, very good actress. She's obviously going to make a big hit in this picture."
- David Niven (co-star, Eye of the Devil)

"Please tell Debra that I was a fan of Sharon's and enjoyed watching her in the movies, most notably, Don't Make Waves, and the Matt Helm picture she did with Dean Martin, The Wrecking Crew. Elvis and all of the guys were extremely upset over Sharon's death, along with her friends. We knew Jay. He cut Elvis' hair in the mid-sixties and then a hair stylist in his salon took over the up-keep. Please convey our thoughts to Debra, even at such a late date, and anything I can do to help with the Star for Sharon, I will be glad to do so. I salute her for doing everything she can to keep Sharon's legacy alive."
- Sonny West (Elvis's bodyguard)

"Sharon Tate is divine, a real find. Just wait and see what happens when the critics and public see her in Valley of the Dolls. Sharon has everything Marilyn Monroe had, and more. She has the fascinating, yet wholly feminine strength of a Dietrich or a Garbo....a classically beautiful face, an exciting figure, the kind of sex appeal and personality appeal to become as glittering a star as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor."
- Travilla (costume designer, Valley of the Dolls)

"She's not a sexpot. She's a very vulnerable girl. The biggest surprise in the film is Sharon."
- Mark Robson (director, Valley of the Dolls)

"I was really very fond of her. She used to come to my house when my children started going to boarding school. She was such a dear, very lovely girl, modest, sincere, with a profound warmth. Blinding beauty and irresistible charm. She was very sharp, not a fool, and had a lot of insight into what had happened to her."
- Leslie Caron

"She would walk into a room, she used to wear little ballet slippers, she had this, you know, lovely blond hair and she was just...angelic."
- Jacqueline Bisset (actress)

"Everybody was competitive with everybody (on the set of the Valley of the Dolls). The only one that I felt was above it, was Sharon Tate. The sweetest, purest, most open spirit."
- Robert Viharo (co-star, Valley of the Dolls)

"Sharon was asked to play this very difficult role, of a rather witch like person. It was asking a new comer to do a lot. She takes direction beautifully. Very soon she began to realize that the camera was a friend. "Could she do it?", that was in all our minds. We even agreed that if after a first two weeks, Sharon was not quite making it, that we would put her back in cold storage. We started work.The moment that Sharon appeared on screen in her first rushes, we knew that this wonderful personality was going to make out. We all realized that here was a girl who was tremendously exciting. She had that thing that you can't really explain, Star projection. I think this girl is going to be a big big star."
- J. Lee Thompson (director, Eye of the Devil)

"Just about the only really happily married couple I knew in Hollywood were Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate. Coming from a childhood of horror in Nazi occupied Poland, Roman couldn't believe he was the husband of this milk-fed American beauty. Sharon's movie career was just beginning to heat up after Valley of the Dolls. In Roman's eyes, she was already the brightest star in the world. Around his gentle, sun-kissed bride he was like a child who's just seen his first Christmas tree light up."
- Robert Evans

"She was absolutely a scene stealer and a show stopper."
- Gene Gutowski

"Jay (Sebring) had a private room for his steady clients so that they wouldn't have to be seen by the other customers. I had a regular appointment every third week, and it was in that room that I met Sharon Tate. She would often be sitting there in a chair, just to be with Jay as he worked. She looked so young that I thought at first she was coming there after school. She wore her blond hair straight and long. She was quiet and friendly and smiled a lot at our conversations. Jay was so proud of her. He couldn't stop looking at her. It was as if he couldn't believe he had a girlfriend that beautiful. I've never seen a guy more madly in love than Jay was with Sharon."
- Dominick Dunne

"She was a very, very gentle person. Very gentle. Very much a flower power child. But not silly. She was very cool. Jeans looked very good on her. And she was the first one that wore a see through top, but it worked, you know, it was ok."
- Brian Morris

"She walked into my office and sat down across from me on the couch. I almost slid off my chair. I mean she was like a blast. And I'm looking at this girl and I'm saying, 'My God, you know, she's really got something.' And I said, 'She's not for television, she's for motion picture work.'"
- Herb Browar

"Sharon Tate came at me in sections. I first saw her on the Santa Monica pier, and all I could think of was: "This is the sexiest girl I ever saw in my life." She was wearing Italian sandals and tight blue jeans and a navy-blue T-shirt that made the most of her middrift; her hair was tied up in a man's silk print handkerchief and she wore absolutely no makeup, but nobody on the beach could see anything but her. It's almost embarrassing. Those fantastic cactus-green eyes pull you inside, but you can hardly look at them. Nobody recognized her but everybody stared. The Muscle Beach guys stopped paying attention to their teeny-bopper girl friends in their hip-hep bikinis. They were all looking at Sharon, wondering who she was, aware that they were in the midst of a very big presence."
- Rex Reed

"I agreed to see her. An hour later she came in with Hal Gefsky, her agent. She was 19 years old, she was absolutely beautiful. I mean Sharon was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen."
- Martin Ransohoff

"Sharon was a lovely young woman. She always seemed a bit cautious when she was on set, as if she was still getting her footing. She was very sweet and seemed eager to learn, though I think she was perhaps a bit intimidated as well. I can't say that she mixed with the rest of the cast. I do remember her laughter though, which rang across the studio."
- Nancy Kulp

"The day I met Sharon, I showed her the house on Cielo. Sharon wore no makeup and was wearing jeans and she was the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. She was so excited and fell in love with the house. Sharon begged me to show the house to Roman. Sharon said I found her "dream house" and was skipping through the garden. We talked and became friends, I miss her. I support Sharon Tate for a "Star" on Hollywood Boulevard! Sharon was a sweet, beautiful person and very talented and deserving of this honor!"
- Elaine Young

"No one deserves a star on the Walk of Fame more than Sharon Tate. She embodied true movie star glamour and poignance with singular style."
- Michael Musto