Others on Liv Tyler

"She is my proudest life achievement: She and I have always been great friends, and I simply adore her. I'm her biggest fan"
- Bebe Buell, Liv's mother

"Liv Tyler kind of stuns you when she walks through the door, before she's ever said a word"
-Tom Hanks

"I was in Italy at some kind of awards, and Bertolucci was doing Stealign Beauty at the time. And he said, 'You've got to see this girl, she's unbelievable.' She has such beautiful skin, I see them put makeup on her and I'm going, 'Why ?'"
- Robert Altman, director

"The thing about Liv, is that she's really smart about the choices she's making. At her stage in the business, it's very difficult to say no to whatever comes along, because of all the money, attention, and glamour being thrown at you. But she's saying no to all the right things. This is an extremely well-grounded girl. She's the oldest 18-year-old I've ever encountered."
- Tom Hanks, actor

""I`m a great believer in people coming into your life, and you into theirs, for a reason. And i know that when Liv and I met, it was for a reason - I really needed her and she really needed me. And at a certain point, I think we stopped evolving with each other, stopped progressing, and made a very mature decision to move on, even though there was still a great love there. There`s no one gossipy thing that I can share. I`m thankful that we had the time we had."
Joaquin Phoenix

"Liv Tyler is hands down the most beautiful woman in the world. She's also beyond that, She really listens, really looks at people. She takes her time."
- Julianne Moore, actress

"Apart from being a great actress and being able to pull off three different characters, which she did flawlessly, the camera loves her! There's not a lot I need to do to convey the fact that guys just fall over for her. The thing that surprised me the most about her was that she was incredibly funny. She has a great sense of humor. And I think she shows a great comedic talent in the film."
- Harald Zwart, director

"Liv is possibly the biggest reason for me changing the way I lived. She is a dream daughter. When she was very young I wasn't sure whether I was the father but, by the time she was eight, I knew for sure. I saw my features in hers and I cried. I started seeing her a lot and I think her mother had alluded to the fact I was her dad. I just said to her, 'Liv, there's something I want to tell you. I'm your Daddy.' It was one of the most emotional moments of my life and I just stood there crying like a baby while she shouted, 'I knew it, I knew it.' I love her more than anything and have a great relationship with her. We can talk about anything."
-dad, Steven Tyler

"Liv is a delightful combination of being very girlish and very wise."
- Patrick O'Connor, director

"I think Liv Tyler is a really naturally beautiful girl and just from interviews and things she seems like a beautiful person in the inside as well. Even as she plays her characters as well. She seems like she has a really good heart and is a pleasant person as well."
- Kevin Richardson, musician

"The casting of the young heroine, Tatyana, came down to either Kate Winslet or Liv Tyler. "It was very, very close-run," says Martha. "Kate is probably the more experienced actor. I have to say I was very excited by her, she is an extraordinary person. But with Liv there was something very raw and untapped, something that came straight from the heart. There's a truth about her, and a great and genuine access to feeling which is wonderfully unselfconscious. At the same time she is, of course, fantastic looking. A lot of the press on her has tended to hone in on the sort of 'stunner-babe' areas that you might expect, but there's so much more to her. She's genuine and highly instinctive, wonderfully easy and funny - and hilariously kooky at times."
- Martha Fiennes, director

"I was in awe. Every once in a while you find an actor that, with one word, can sum up eight different emotions. She absolutely nailed that."
- Joaquin Phoenix, actor

"Liv had never done a film when I first met her, but she had just auditioned for the casting director of Luc Besson's The Professional who was also casting Heavy. He sent her over to my place, and I was just like 'Wow, I've just seen a movie star. A movie star just visited my house; she's sixteen years old and I know she's going to be a movie star!' And it wasn't just beauty. You could see the gears spinning in her head as she sat in pauses between moments and I knew very much that that was how the engine of the movie was going to work - finding actors who were comfortable with the moments between the lines. Most of us feel awkward in the moments we're not speaking; we use speech as a defense - Which is probably why I don't shut up in these interviews (laughs) - but Liv was so comfortable in those unspoken moments, and so was Pruitt. They were people most comfortable just being, and speaking was secondary to them."
- James Magnold, director

"She's a little miracle, In four years she's gone from a little kid with baby fat to this beautiful, exotic flower"
- Steven Tyler, Liv's father