Elizabeth Taylor Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Money is the best deodorant.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I never face the day without perfume.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

What do you expect me to do? Sleep alone?

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

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.

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

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

Without homosexuals there'd be no Hollywood.

There's no deodorant like success.

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

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