Elizabeth Taylor Quotes

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

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

Marriage is a great institution.

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

Big girls need big diamonds.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive.

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

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

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

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

Put on some lipstick and pull yourself together.

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.

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.

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