"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 24 hours in a day." - Doris Tate, Sharon's mother
"She was so young and beautiful that I didn't know what to do with her. 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'd do great, she'd come home with a stack of cards from all the guys in town." - Hal Gefsky, Sharon's agent
"She walked into my office and sat 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
"We got along so well that the first week we met we decided to try and find an apartment together and that's how it started. The place we shared was a nice one bedroomed apartment on Clark Drive. It was tastefully decorated in early actress and there were people always dropping in, Sharon really loved being hospitable." - Sheila Wells, Sharon's friend
"Sharon Tate was an open, honest 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." - Hal Gefsky, Sharon's agent
"In the six years that I knew her, she never said an unkind word about anyone. From the beginning 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 overwhelmingly, so incredibly beautiful that anyone knowing her might think that it took alot to live with such beauty. I never heard anyone say a bad word about her, not even another actress and in this town it's a rarity, it's an impossibility!." - Sheila Wells, Sharon's friend
"Jay had a private room for his steady clients so that they wouldn't have to be seen by 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 the chair, just to be with Jay as he worked, she looked so young that I thought at first she was coming there from school. She wore her blonde hair straight and long, she was quiet and friendly and smiled alot 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." - Dominick Dunne
"Sharon introduced me to my husband and she was godmother to my daughter, Amanda Tate. When I went into hospital to have my baby, Sharon was the first one to come and see me. She was so thrilled when I asked her to be the godmother and when she knew the baby's middle name was for her. I think the greatest thing I can say about Sharon was that she was for real, I mean really for real. Even I, who loved her, find it hard to say what I mean so that she doesn't come out sounding all spun sugary." - Sheila Wells, Sharon's friend
"She was a very beautiful, charming woman who was so sweet and talented." - Larry Gellar, a work colleague of Jay Sebring's
"Sharon was the type of girl who had no defences, no pretences, she was just herself all the time. She never cared about being beautiful, she never even cared about acting, she just wanted love and to be loved and to have her baby. She had this kind of beauty and fragility and you just knew she was bound to get hurt because of it, but you still couldn't help admiring that quality in her, she was just such a special person. She was so trusting, so eager to accept people as they were, so generous, she never shut her door to anyone. She always had a way of finding such goodness in others. If someone hurt her, she'd say 'Oh Sheila 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. In all the thousands of words that have been printed about her since her death, none really told about my friend...about the Sharon I knew." - Sheila Wells, Sharon's friend
"Sharon is a great discovery, first of all she's a fabulously good looking bird and she's got all the fun and spark and go, she's a marvellous girl 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 in Eye Of The Devil
"Sharon was wearing the shortest of the shortest gorgeous little mini-dresses showing that lovely body of hers, she was absolutely a scene stealer and a show stopper." - Gene Gutowski, Roman's best man at their wedding
"Everybody was competitive with everybody on the set. The only one that I felt was above it was Sharon Tate, the sweetest, purest, most open spirit." - Robert Viharo, co-star in Valley Of The Dolls
"Few actresses have her kind of vulnerability, she's got a great future." - Mark Robson, director of Valley Of The Dolls
"She was sweet, kind and talented." - Barbara Parkins, co-star in Valley Of The Dolls and Sharon's maid of honour at her wedding
"She's a star in the eyes of my heart and 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 on a trampoline dismount for the next film sequence to begin promptly, I miss her now." - David Draper, co-star in Don't Make Waves
"The day I met Sharon, I showed her the house on Cielo. Sharon wore no make-up and was wearing jeans and she was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen, she was so excited and fell in love with the house. Sharon begged me to show the house to Roman, she said I found her 'dream house' and was skipping through the garden. We talked and became friends, I miss her, Sharon was a sweet and beautiful person and very talented." - Elaine Young, Beverly Hills Realtor
"We all moved back to California so we could be together and because we were preparing for this child. I have fond memories of those days, of spending time with my sister, who I loved and adored." - Patti Tate, Sharon's sister
"There's one thing some people have wondered about, whether or not the baby could have been saved if the police had come in time, I don't know about that but all I can tell you is that Sharon wanted the baby more than anything else in the world. That baby belonged to her, now he will always be with her." - Sheila Wells, Sharon's friend
"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, but when I was needed, REALLY, really needed, I was there." - Doris Tate, Sharon's mother
"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, she was a talented actress." - Barbara Leigh
"Roman really loved Sharon. I know that he was very, very grieved." - Doris Tate, Sharon's mother
"My sister was everything to me, she was so sweet and such a gentle soul, she was a movie star and beautiful and in my eyes she was just so big. There wasn't anything I wouldn't have done for her." - Patti Tate, Sharon's sister
"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." - Sheila Wells, Sharon's friend
"I hate it. I hate that her beautiful name is linked to Charles Manson." - Patti Tate, Sharon's sister
"Sharon was a luminous beauty, kind, gentle and a wonderful friend to everyone to all who were priviledged to know her. She brought out the best in others and was a human beauty of extraordinary worth. Her memory is always fresh in my mind." - Michael Sarne, Actor
"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." - Max Baer, Jr
"She was so sweet, so kind, she was so talented too. Taken before her time." - Barbara Parkins, co-star in Valley Of The Dolls and maid of honour at Sharon and Roman's wedding
"I knew Sharon Tate. Beautiful, naive young girl, I heard of Sharon's death on 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
"I was really fond of her. She used to come to my house when my children starting going to boarding school. She was such a dear, lovely girl, modest, sincere, with a profound warmth. Blinding beauty and irresistable charm. She was very sharp, not a fool, and had a lot of insight into what happened to her." - Leslie Caron
"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 mid-drift, her hair was tied up in a man's silk print handkerchief and she wore absolutely no make-up." - Rex Reed