In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

- Elizabeth Ashley

The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.

- Elizabeth Ashley

drama is made up of what people most fear and deny in themselves. The taboos. The secrets. The devils and the demons. The only reason they let us liv…

- Elizabeth Ashley

All the things that are negative in me as a person - the incompetence and despair and weakness and pain - are like a gift from God in a performer. If…

- Elizabeth Ashley

Sex is just another real good drug ... and it can make a junkie out of you.

- Elizabeth Ashley

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

- Elizabeth Ashley

People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see and experience things they cannot see and ex…

- Elizabeth Ashley

Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at.

- Elizabeth Ashley

Because I'm a performer I can justify and sometimes sell the things about me that offend and shock the conventional world. I need to live life in the…

- Elizabeth Ashley