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1943–1969 United States
Sharon Marie Tate (24 January 1943 – 9 August 1969) was an American actress, model and the wife of Roman Polański. Along with six others, she was murdered in August 1969 by members of the Manson Family.
United States Actresses Models Also known as: Tate, Sharon
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In the six years time that I knew her, she never said an unkind word about anyone.
Please — please don't kill me — I don't want to die. I just want to have my baby.
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.
Martin Ransohoff had to sell Roman on the idea of even considering me for the film.
I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly. 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?
Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders (2000)
I can't play games. … They tell me I am being foolish. Well, foolish I am.
Oh, that's silly! I'm not an anything . . . I'm just me. If I am sexy, it's just something I do naturally, like picking up a knife and fork to eat. I think people who try to be sexy are the most unsexy people in the world.
When I was in school, I dreamed about becoming a psychiatrist or a ballerina. Like most girls I would dream about being a movie star too. But those dreams are the impossible kind, the kind you don't really set your heart on.
Screen Stories magazine (1967)
I can't play games. I have friends, older women, who tell me I'm foolish to let Roman know how deeply I care about him. They tell me all sorts of things like "keep a man guessing", "men become bored with too much devotion". They tell me I am being foolish. Well, foolish I am.
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