Elizabeth Taylor Quotes:

It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.

Topics: Kindness, Positivity, Connections, Never Lose Hope, Famous Women

I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have watched a great artist perform, and never richer than when I have scored a big check to fight AIDS.

Topics: Children, Fighting, Artist

Put on some lipstick and pull yourself together.

Topics: Together, Lipstick, Girl Power, Pulling Together, Every Girl

I was so strictly brought up that the only time I could get away would be on my own pony. I could ride wherever I wanted on my godfather's estate in Kent.I wasn't brought up to be afraid of anything.

Topics: Would Be, Ponies, Estates

You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way.

Topics: Inspiring, Beautiful, Fighting

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

Topics: Mother, Passion, Important

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

source: - FaceBook post by Elizabeth Taylor from Jun 23, 2016

Topics: Inspirational, Book, Beer, Vice And Virtue

I always wanted to have a fragrance, and I always wanted to be able to connect with people in ways other than through film.

Topics: People, Able, Way

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

source: - Elizabeth Taylor (1968). “A wreath of roses”

Topics: Inspirational, Patience, Time, Patience And Waiting, Great Patience

Acting is fun. It's not my whole life. It's not my entire being. It's secondary to my life. My life is primary. I'm running in the primary, as you know.

Topics: Running, Fun, Acting

There has never been such a silence.

Topics: Death, Silence

To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the director says, "Action!" Then you snap your mind into shape and into the character that you're playing and relate to the people that you're acting with and forget everybody else that you've been joking with.

Topics: Character, People, Laughing, Giggle

All of my life I've spent a lot of time with gay men - Montgomery Clift, Jimmy Dean, Rock Hudson - who are my colleagues, coworkers, confidantes, my closest friends, but I never thought of who they slept with! They were just the people I loved. I could never understand why they couldn't be afforded the same rights and protections as all of the rest of us. There is no gay agenda, it's a human agenda

Topics: Gay, Men, Rights, Closest, Closest Friends

I've always sung in the shower. Now I make the stage a mental shower in order not to get too uptight and enjoy it.

Topics: Order, Uptight, Stage

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.

source: - Twitter post from May 05, 2013

Topics: Adventure, Doors, Looks, Adventurous Spirit, Opened Doors

It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.

Topics: Gymnastics, Want, Force

You can be fat and still be sexy . It all depends on how you feel about yourself

Topics: Sexy, Clever, How You Feel

I just loved the feeling of flying. I could jump six feet bareback and it was the closest thing to being Pegasus and flying next to God. It's the most liberating freedom-making feeling in the world.

Topics: Feet, Flying, Feelings, Pegasus

Money is the best deodorant.

Topics: Money, Deodorant

I left home as soon as I could, when I was 18. I thought I was in love and got married - the press called it Prince Charming and Cinderella. He was a Hilton so I was the poor little Cinderella. And when I got a divorce nine months later I never told the court why, but he was cruel.

Topics: Divorce, Home, Months, Nine Months

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

Topics: Mother, Eye, Eight, Jewellery, Engagement Day

I would totally lose myself in the music and be a gypsy. I would go wherever I wanted to in my head - wherever the music took me. My body followed.

Topics: Body, Gypsy, Wanted

On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second.

Topics: Children, Thinking, Childhood

I want it all quickly 'cause I don't want God to stop and think and wonder if I'm getting more than my share.

Topics: Thinking, Want, Causes

It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.

Topics: Ignorance, People, Dying, World Aids Day, Aids Day

I believe in mind over matter and doing anything you set your mind on.

Topics: Believe, Mind, Matter

Being able to go on location and see the world was the greatest perk of all.

Topics: Goes On, World, Able

You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.

source: - Twitter post from Jul 23, 2010

Topics: Helping Others, World, Who You Are

Just in case you get pneumonia or die. The dangerous bits are always the last days of shooting.

Topics: Pneumonia, Shooting, Lasts

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

Topics: Movie, Gambling, Film

I've never had an acting lesson. I've never been given techniques. Everything I've done is invented. I just sort of found out [how to do it].

Topics: Acting, Technique, Done

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.

Topics: Marriage, Wife, Married

I gave a very dear friend of mine my humanitarian award. Because you don't need an award to be, or not be, a humanitarian.

Topics: Awards, Needs, Humanitarian

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

Topics: Clouds

On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him.

Topics: Directors, Speak, Film

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

source: - "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Friendship, Real, Scandal, Who Your Real Friends Are, Who Your Friends Are

I hate to try to be that person in my own skin, in my own way, in my own head, not through exercises or anything else, just by, I guess, belief, concentration.

Topics: Hate, Exercise, Skins

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

Topics: Inspirational, People, Survival

I don't have a set pattern. I take things as they come. Usually with a great amount of relish. I just lay back and wait for it to happen. And it usually does.

Topics: Waiting, Doe, Patterns

Big girls need big diamonds.

Topics: Girl, Fashion, Needs, Cute Girl, Fashionista

Fragrance is an incredibly intimate thing. It can evoke very specific thoughts or memories and is a little different for each person who wears it. I also think it's the most accessible luxury.

Topics: Memories, Thinking, Luxury

I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.

Topics: Inspirational, Passion, My Passion

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

Topics: Lessons, Actresses

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

Topics: Birthday, Growing Up, Thinking

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

Topics: Queens, Fun, Real

I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being - to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame.

source: - Oscar Speech, www.oscarworld.net. 1993.

Topics: Hate, Compassion, Race

I love to be casual and comfortable, but I also love the easy glamour of wearing jewelry all the time.

Topics: Jewelry, Easy, Glamour

Now is the time for guts and guile,

Topics: Guile, Guts

I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands. For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else.

Topics: Husband, Jewels, Doe

If you can't laugh at yourself, you're cooked!

Topics: Inspirational, Laughing, Laugh At Yourself

The beauty of fragrance is that it speaks to your heart and hopefully someone else's.

Topics: Heart, Speak, Fragrance

I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.

Topics: Hate, Independent, Ideas, Free Thinkers, Thoughts And Words

I've never thought of my jewelry as trophies. I'm here to take care of it and to love it, for we are only temporary custodians of beauty.

Topics: Custodians, Care, Trophies, Jewellery

I like the connection with fans and people who have been supportive of me. And I love the idea of real feedback and a two-way street, which is very, very modern.

Topics: Real, Ideas, Two, Two Way Street

I never face the day without perfume.

Topics: Faces, Perfume

Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.

Topics: Dream, Thinking, Idols

I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off.

Topics: Soccer, Biting, Violence

A strong film director does leave you to your devices. A strong director allows you to be free and you trust that he's there and he will tell you if you've gone too far. A strong director allows you to be much more experimental and take greater chances than a director who isn't secure within himself.

Topics: Strong, Directors, Doe, Film Directors

If it is not to make the world better what is money for?

Topics: World

I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things.

Topics: Beautiful, Great Love, Custodians

I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously

Topics: Taken, Critics

I know I'm vulgar, but would you have me any other way?

Topics: Way, Vulgar

Look, sweetheart, I can drink you under any ***** table you want, so don't worry about me.

Topics: Beer, Worry, Looks

The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.

Topics: Life Changing, Book, Library, Wondrous, Public Library

When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.

source: - FaceBook post by Elizabeth Taylor from Feb 19, 2016

Topics: People, Answers, Tomorrow

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

Topics: Birthday, Growing Up, Men

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

Topics: Fake People, Ordinary, Housewife

Success is a great deodorant.

Topics: Life, Success, Congratulations, Deodorant

I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Self Esteem, Done, Self Determination, Inspirational Self Confidence, Inspirational Self Esteem

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

Topics: Sarcastic, Dog, Witty, Man And Dog, Labrador Dogs

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

Topics: Congratulations, Past, Smell, Deodorant

I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit

Topics: Bullshit, Reactions, Temper, Bad Temper, Short Temper

Follow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come.

source: - FaceBook post by Elizabeth Taylor from Jul 06, 2015

Topics: Dream, Passion, Heart

How can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness?

Topics: Sadness, Shopping, Roots, Money Is The Root Of All Evil

I'm not like anyone. I'm me.

source: - FaceBook post by Elizabeth Taylor from Aug 03, 2015

Topics: Originality

Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.

Topics: Break Up, Makeup, Red Lipstick, Lipstick, Girl Power

You can't cry on a diamond's shoulder, and diamonds won't keep you warm at night, but they're sure fun when the sun shines.

source: - Twitter post from Apr 17, 2009

Topics: Fun, Night, Shining, Jewellery

Give. Remember always to give. That is the one thing that will make you grow.

Topics: Giving, Remember, Grows

When I'm not with the one I love, I love the one I'm with.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

source: - FaceBook post by Elizabeth Taylor from Jun 29, 2015

Topics: Inspirational, Getting High, Finance

So much is said with the electricity of the eyes, the intensity of a whisper. Less is more.

Topics: Eye, Less Is More, Electricity

I don't love acting; I love chocolate.

source: - "Fisher, Reynolds to Honor Taylor" by Liz Smith, www.sfgate.com. March 30, 2000.

Topics: Chocolate, Acting, Love Chocolates

I'm not afraid. Life is just such an adventure to me.

source: - Source: www.rollingstone.com

Topics: Adventure, Life Is, Not Afraid

Michael Jackson is part of my heart. We would do anything for each other.

Topics: Heart, My Heart

I do enjoy life, I really do. Especially if I wake up the next day.

Topics: Next Day, Enjoy Life, Wake Up

Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else? What it comes down to, ultimately, is love. How can anything bad come out of love? The bad stuff comes out of mistrust, misunderstanding and, God knows, from hate and from ignorance.

source: - "Elizabeth Taylor remembered for kindness, activism" by Michael Martinez, www.cnn.com. March 23, 2011.

Topics: Hate, Ignorance, Gay, Bad Stuff

No matter what happens, I'm loud, noisy, earthy and ready for much more living.

Topics: Matter, Loud, Ready

When women stops blushing, she has lost the most powerful weapon of charm.

Topics: Powerful, Weapons, Charm, Blushing, Powerful Weapons

Every breath you take today should be with someone else in mind.

source: - Twitter post from Jul 23, 2010

Topics: Mind, Today, Should

A belly laugh increases the ability of your immune system to fight infections.

Topics: Fighting, Laughing, Increase, Belly Laughs, Immune System

I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.

Topics: Children, Body, Emotion

When you're older, you'll appreciate the advantages of sleeping alone.

Topics: Sleep, Appreciate, Sleeping Alone

I'm not worried about dying. I consult with God, my maker. And I don't have a lot of problems to work out. I'm pretty squared anyway.

Topics: Work Out, Dying, Problem

I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities.

source: - Source: www.rollingstone.com

Topics: Drinking, Thinking, Quality

Seems like we always spend the best part of our time just saying goodbye.

source: - "Fictional character: Angela". "A Place in the Sun", www.imdb.com. 1951.

Topics: Goodbye, Just Saying, Seems

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

source: - FaceBook post by Elizabeth Taylor from Jun 30, 2016

Topics: Mother, Baby, Courage

I've been married too many times. How terrible to change children's affiliations, their affections - to give them the insecurity of placing their trust in someone when maybe that someone won't be there next year.

source: - Elizabeth Taylor (1965). “Elizabeth Taylor: an informal memoir”

Topics: Children, Years, Giving

I mean, how many young women get a set of rubies just for doing something wholesome like swimming laps? Or win a diamond ring at Ping-Pong with their husband... ? Well, I did, and for all of these memories and the people in my life I feel blessed.

source: - "Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry". Book by Elizabeth Taylor, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

Topics: Husband, Memories, Blessed, Ping Pong, Diamond Rings

Any home where there is love constitutes a family and all families should have the same legal rights, including the right to marry and have or adopt children. Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else?

Topics: Children, Home, Gay, Gay People, Legal Rights

All I see in the mirror every morning is a face that needs washing.

source: - Elizabeth Taylor (1965). “Elizabeth Taylor: an informal memoir”

Topics: Morning, Mirrors, Needs

You can't choose between right and wrong by taking a census.

Topics: Decision, Decision Making, Census

The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.

source: - Twitter post from Jan 22, 2018

Topics: Stress, Optimism, Survival, Optimism And Hope, Living Proof

Judaism had absolutely nothing to do with my past marriage to Mike [Todd] or my upcoming marriage to Eddie Fisher, both of whom were Jewish. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time.

Topics: Past, Long, Judaism

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

Topics: Men, Married, Claims

Acting is, to me now, artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn't be more real. Some people don't like to look at it in the face because it's painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Real, People, Suffering

I wear perfume even when I’m alone

Topics: Perfume

I have the emotions of a child in the body of a woman. I was rushed into womanhood for the movies. It caused me long moments of unhappiness and doubt.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Children, Long, Doubt

Marilyn Monroe seemed to have a kind of unconscious glow about her physical self that was innocent, like a child. When she posed nude, it was 'Gee, I am kind of, you know, sort of dishy,' like she enjoyed it without being egotistical.

Topics: Children, Self, Kind

I use my fame now when I want to help a cause or other people.

Topics: People, Use, Want

When I hear the name Michael Jackson, I think of brilliance, of dazzling stars, lasers and deep emotions. I think he is one of the world's biggest and greatest stars, and it just so happens that he is one of the most gifted music makers the world has ever known. I think he is one of the finest people to hit this planet, and, in my estimation, he is the true King of Pop, Rock, and Soul. I love you Michael.

Topics: Kings, Stars, Love You, Deep Emotions, Estimation

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.

source: - Twitter post from May 01, 2013

Topics: Fashion, Sunglasses, Radiance, Gems, Jewellery

I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Taken, Disease, Use, Scoliosis

I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don't like myself.

source: - "Meeting Miss Taylor" by Leonard Maltin, www.indiewire.com. March 23, 2011.

Topics: Inspiring, Moving, Mean

I feel like 45. I don't look bad for someone my age, with my history of illnesses and operations and all those anesthetics. When they knock you out, it gives you time to catch up on your beauty sleep.

Topics: Sleep, Giving, Age, Sleeping Beauty, Anesthetics

Why shouldn't gay people be allowed to be able to marry? Those against gay marriages say marriage should only be between a man and a woman. God, I of all people know that doesn't always work!

Topics: Gay, Men, People, Against Gay Marriage

What is a genius? What is a living legend? What is a megastar? Michael Jackson -- that's all. And when you think you know him, he gives you more. I think he is one of the finest people to hit this planet, and, in my estimation, he is the true King of Pop, Rock and Soul.

Topics: Kings, Thinking, Rocks, Estimation, Living Legends

What do you expect me to do? Sleep alone?

source: - "Is the 'movie star' a thing of the past?" by Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

Topics: Sleep

I find it rather tedious working with some actors who have to go into a corner and bounce up and down, shake their hands and arms, saying to the director, "Just a second - I'll be ready in a few minutes, " while all the other actors are waiting around to get in. Then they say, "OK! I'm ready now." And then they come on and do it exactly the same way they've done it in rehearsal.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Hands, Waiting Around, Rehearsal

My favorite name for a color is "puce." It's kind of a dried blood color. It's a hideous color. But I love the word. It's so euphonic. But my favorite colors are lavender, purple, periwinkle blue, and white.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Names, Purple, White, Periwinkle, Favorite Color

Thanks Darling for the beautiful flowers and all the prayers. Now can you just get my puppy past security?

source: - "Elizabeth Taylor's tweets assure fans she's fine" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. May 26, 2009.

Topics: Beautiful, Prayer, Flower, Beautiful Flower

I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our particular species.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Optimism, Species, Particular

I will love Michael Jackson forever.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Forever

Oh, I love red. I'm very loyal to my colors. I love violet.

Topics: Color, Loyal, Red

I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet.... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short.

Topics: Hate, Voice, Want, Hate Myself, I Hate Myself

Originally, we were going to set up a cappuccino bar in the showroom, but we've been so busy, ... We decided when we're old and grey, we're going to set up a coffee shop, and we formed the company about 18 months ago when we thought of the name. It's going to be TLC - Tastes Like Chocolate.

Topics: Coffee, Names, Chocolate, Coffee Shop, Cappuccino

I think I ended up being the scarlet woman partly because of my rather puritannical upbringing and beliefs. I always chose to think I was in love and that love was synonymous with marriage.

Topics: Thinking, Belief, Scarlet

I've always preferred animals to little girls or boys. I had my first horse - actually it was a Newfoundland pony - when I was three, and I loved riding, without anyone shackling me - riding bareback as fast as I could.

source: - Source: www.rollingstone.com

Topics: Girl, Horse, Animal

Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people.

Topics: Humility, Vanity, People

Without homosexuals there'd be no Hollywood.

Topics: Hollywood, Sexuality, Homosexual

Michael Jackson is one of the most normal people I know.

Topics: People, Normal, Knows

Everything was handed to me - looks, fame, wealth, honour, love. I rarely had to fight for anything

Topics: Fighting, Looks, Wealth

When you're fat, the world is divided into two groups - people who bug you and people who leave you alone. The funny thing is, supporters and saboteurs exist in either camp.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Funny Things, Two, People, Saboteurs

The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.

source: - Elizabeth Taylor (2015). “A View of the Harbour”, p.86, New York Review of Books

Topics: Hate, People, Drink, People You Hate, Brandy

I hate being called "Liz", because it can sound like such a hiss.

source: - FaceBook post by Elizabeth Taylor from Jul 23, 2014

Topics: Hate, Sound, Liz

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

Topics: Autobiography, Havens

I believe in the difference between men and women. In fact, I embrace the difference.

Topics: Believe, Men, Differences, Differences Between Man And Woman

You can always avert throwing yourself in front of an oncoming train. There is something that just pulls you away - and it has pulled me away, because I'm not dead yet - just at the brink of impact. Sometimes I have been really grazed by that train.

source: - Source: www.rollingstone.com

Topics: Impact, Sometimes, Throwing

I'm loud and I'm vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody's got to, but I am not a monster. I'm not.

source: - "Fictional character: Martha". "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", www.imdb.com. 1966.

Topics: House, Monsters, Pants

Marriage is a great institution.

Topics: Marriage, Institutions

My forties are the best time I have ever gone through.

Topics: Gone, Forty, Best Times

People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.

source: - FaceBook post by Elizabeth Taylor from Oct 21, 2013

Topics: People, Liz, Call Me

[On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence.

source: - "Fictional character: Cleopatra". "Cleopatra", June 12, 1963.

Topics: Death, Silence

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

source: - "Elizabeth Taylor obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2011.

Topics: Stupid, Dumb, Dollars, Million Dollars

Clark Gable was the epitome of the movie star - so romantic, such bearing, such friendliness.

Topics: Stars, Epitome, Movie Star

I love going to rock concerts, I love to lose myself in that vast wave of rhythm and body heat and get on the same vibe.

source: - Source: www.rollingstone.com

Topics: Rocks, Body, Heat, Rock Concerts, Body Heat

I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.

Topics: Vocabulary, Language, Drawbacks

Something always made me save myself. Either the Betty Ford Center or going onstage to perform in the theater when many people didn't think I could do it.

source: - Source: www.rollingstone.com

Topics: Thinking, People, Made

Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once quipped, "She's as wistful as an iron factory."

Topics: Character, Iron, Personality, Demure, Pianist

I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.

source: - "Liz’s Aids Odyssey". Interview With Nancy Collins, www.vanityfair.com. November 1992.

Topics: Thinking, President, Hiv

There's still so much more to do. I can't sit back and be complacent, and none of us should be. I get around now in a wheelchair, but I get around.

source: - "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Should, Wheelchairs, Complacent

Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense." (on Richard Burton)

Topics: Sexy, Men, Essence, Sexy Man

A "name" no longer carries a film. People used to go to the cinema to see a "John Wayne film." And you don't have that thing happening now except in the rock world, which has taken the event out of movies.

source: - Source: www.rollingstone.com

Topics: Taken, Names, Rocks

On Mother's Day: It's just a rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like.

Topics: Mother, Rip, Chance

I never tried to act until A Place in the Sun.

source: - "25 things you didn't know about Elizabeth Taylor", www.today.com. March 23, 2011.

Topics: Sun

I had a hollow leg. I could drink everyone under the table and not get drunk. My capacity was terrifying.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Drunk, Legs, Tables

I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.

Topics: Real, Reality, Sweat

Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive.

source: - "Fictional character: Maggie Pollitt". "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", www.imdb.com. 1958.

Topics: Cat, Alive, Maggie, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.

source: - "Elizabeth Taylor: Hollywood mourns last of the greats" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2011.

Topics: Remember

There's no deodorant like success.

source: - Elizabeth Taylor (1965). “Elizabeth Taylor: an informal memoir”

Topics: Success, Deodorant

This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly recalled from our own childhoods.

Topics: Book, Kids, Ideas, Vermeer, This Is A Book

The public me, the one named Elizabeth Taylor, has become a lot of hokum and fabrication - a bunch of drivel - and I find her slightly revolting.

source: - Elizabeth Taylor (1965). “Elizabeth Taylor: an informal memoir”

Topics: Bunch, Drivel, Fabrication

... there is no deodorant like success.

source: - Elizabeth Taylor (1965). “Elizabeth Taylor: an informal memoir”

Topics: Deodorant

John Wayne is as tough as an old nut and as soft as a yellow ribbon.

Topics: Nuts, Yellow, Ribbons