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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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