“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 okay.”
“People expect so much of an attractive person. I mean people are very critical on me. It makes me tense. Even when I lay down I’m tense. I’ve got an enormous imagination. I imagine all kinds of things. Like that I’m all washed up, I’m finished. I think sometimes that people don’t want me around. I don’t like to be alone though. When I’m alone my imagination gets all creepy.” -Sharon Tate, 1967.
Sharon Tate photographed for ‘The Wrecking Crew’, 1968.
“They (Martin Ransohoff and John Calley) said they had a plan for me. They would train me and prepare me. I was immediately put into training- like a racehorse. I had a job to stay the way I was. They told me, ‘Cream your face, Sharon….put on more eyeliner, Sharon…stick out your boobs, Sharon.” -Sharon Tate to Photo Screen magazine, 1968
Sharon Tate photographed by Jean-Claude Deustch in Paris, 1968.