Taylor 'didn't identify with Cleopatra role'

Dame Elizabeth Taylor has suggested that she did not identify with the Egyptian queen that she portrayed in the 1963 film Cleopatra.

In an interview conducted by Kim Kardashian for Harper's Bazaar magazine, the 78-year-old star explained that Cleopatra's extravagant lifestyle never appealed to her.

"I have never wanted to be a queen," she said. "Cleopatra was a role, and I am an actor, so it was fun to play one, but it's not real."

Taylor also claimed that she's always been most concerned with attaining more realistic achievements.

"The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were born out of great passion," she remarked.

The actress has won two Academy Awards over the course of her career for her performances in Butterfield 8 and Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?.

She last appeared on-screen in the 2001 TV movie These Old Broads.