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.

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

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

I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.

... there is no deodorant like success.

I don't love acting; I love chocolate.

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.