72-year-old Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor says that she feels "stupid and feeble" due to her poor state of health preventing her from working. Taylor suffers constant pain as a result of a bone disease and a congestive heart failure which makes breathing difficult.

"People must think, 'My God, she's still alive?'" she joked to W magazine.

"But there's some resilience in me that makes me keep fighting. It's the damnedest thing - I just keep coming back."

She says that the prospect of death does not frighten her: "I consult with God, my maker. And I don't have a lot of problems to work out. I'm pretty squared away."

Liz Taylor is one of Hollywood's most revered actresses. The two-time wife of Richard Burton won two Oscars in the 1960s for Butterfield and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.