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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.