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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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet ... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short. -- Elizabeth Taylor
When you're older, you'll appreciate the advantages of sleeping alone. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I cannot think why you love me,' he said, as all lovers say; but with more anxiety in his voice than is usual. 'Oh, I am nothing without you,' she said. 'I should not know what to be. I feel as if you had invented me. I watch you inventing me, week after week -- Elizabeth Taylor
Any home where there is love constitutes a family and all families should have the same legal rights, including the right to marry and have or adopt children. Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else? -- Elizabeth Taylor
I've been married too many times. How terrible to change children's affiliations, their affections - to give them the insecurity of placing their trust in someone when maybe that someone won't be there next year. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I left home as soon as I could, when I was 18. I thought I was in love and got married - the press called it Prince Charming and Cinderella. He was a Hilton so I was the poor little Cinderella. And when I got a divorce nine months later I never told the court why, but he was cruel. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I was so strictly brought up that the only time I could get away would be on my own pony. I could ride wherever I wanted on my godfather's estate in Kent.I wasn't brought up to be afraid of anything. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Past and future to him were the realities; the present dull, meaningless, only significant if, as now, going back along the sands, he could say to himself: 'Later on, I shall remember. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive. -- Elizabeth Taylor
No matter what happens, I'm loud, noisy, earthy and ready for much more living. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Fragrance is an incredibly intimate thing. It can evoke very specific thoughts or memories and is a little different for each person who wears it. I also think it's the most accessible luxury. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I don't love acting; I love chocolate. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I use my fame now when I want to help a cause or other people. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
John Wayne is as tough as an old nut and as soft as a yellow ribbon. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Success is a great deodorant. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Everything was handed to me - looks, fame, wealth, honour, love. I rarely had to fight for anything -- Elizabeth Taylor
It's not the having, it's the getting. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
You can't choose between right and wrong by taking a census. -- Elizabeth Taylor
The day comes in slowly to those who are ill. The night has separated them from the sleepers, who return to them like strangers from a distant land, full of clumsy preparations for the living, the earth itself creaking towards the light. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I love going to rock concerts, I love to lose myself in that vast wave of rhythm and body heat and get on the same vibe. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
There is no deodorant like success. -- Elizabeth Taylor
On Mother's Day: It's just a rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like. -- Elizabeth Taylor
All I see in the mirror every morning is a face that needs washing. -- Elizabeth Taylor
What is a genius? What is a living legend? What is a megastar? Michael Jackson
that's all. And when you think you know him, he gives you more. 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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
My forties are the best time I have ever gone through. -- Elizabeth Taylor
The disaster of being old was in not feeling safe to venture anywhere, of seeing freedom put out of reach. -- Elizabeth Taylor
She was a tall woman with big bones and a noble face, dark eyebrows and a neatly folded jowl. She would have made a distinguished-looking man and, sometimes, wearing evening dress, looked like some famous general in drag. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our particular species. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I believe in mind over matter and doing anything you set your mind on. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive. -- Elizabeth Taylor
She seemed to be lovely still to herself, as if no amount of looking into mirrors could ruin her illusion. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Seems like we always spend the best part of our time ... just saying goodbye. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people. -- Elizabeth Taylor
She felt locked away in herself, but ignorant of her identity, and often she awoke suddenly in the night, without any idea of who she was; thinking, firstly, that she had died. -- Elizabeth Taylor
It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Seeing one face continually in crowds is one of the minor annoyances of being in love. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I'm not worried about dying. I consult with God, my maker. And I don't have a lot of problems to work out. I'm pretty squared anyway. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Marriage is a great institution. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times. -- Elizabeth Taylor
The rain hit the windows like rice; the fire roared hollowly; the autumn afternoon discoloured into darkness. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit -- Elizabeth Taylor
Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense. (on Richard Burton) -- Elizabeth Taylor
People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz. -- Elizabeth Taylor
The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells. -- Elizabeth Taylor
My favorite name for a color is "puce." It's kind of a dried blood color. It's a hideous color. But I love the word. It's so euphonic. But my favorite colors are lavender, purple, periwinkle blue, and white. -- Elizabeth Taylor
They met middle-age together-a time when women are necessary to one another-and all the petty but grievous insults of greying hair, crowsfeet, and the loathed encumbrances of unwanted flesh, seemed less sordid when faced and fought (though fought spasmodically and with weak wills) gaily together. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Just in case you get pneumonia or die. The dangerous bits are always the last days of shooting. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Michael Jackson is one of the most normal people I know. -- Elizabeth Taylor
She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I find vocabulary to be a great drawback. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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]. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Follow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I used never to think about them - Mother and Father - I don't think one should have to think about one's parents'. -- Elizabeth Taylor
How can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness? -- Elizabeth Taylor
He almost dared to say that her graying mustache gave her a military look, a more distinguished air: his private smile at the thought he had withheld ruffled her as much. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Michael Jackson is part of my heart. We would do anything for each other. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I would totally lose myself in the music and be a gypsy. I would go wherever I wanted to in my head - wherever the music took me. My body followed. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Oh, I love red. I'm very loyal to my colors. I love violet. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Since I was a little girl, I believed I was a child of destiny, and if that is true, Richard Burton was surely my fate. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Its best to turn to no one, to seek to please no one, as if there were only oneself in the world. The pleasure of others is a by-product after all, and if ever the whispering voices are allowed to crowd out the one voice, the result is this ... a sort of high-pitched silliness, a terrible silliness. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Thanks Darling for the beautiful flowers and all the prayers. Now can you just get my puppy past security? -- Elizabeth Taylor
I hate to try to be that person in my own skin, in my own way, in my own head, not through exercises or anything else, just by, I guess, belief, concentration. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I gave a very dear friend of mine my humanitarian award. Because you don't need an award to be, or not be, a humanitarian. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I don't have a set pattern. I take things as they come. Usually with a great amount of relish. I just lay back and wait for it to happen. And it usually does. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I love to be casual and comfortable, but I also love the easy glamour of wearing jewelry all the time. -- Elizabeth Taylor
You can be fat and still be sexy . It all depends on how you feel about yourself -- Elizabeth Taylor
It was hard work being old. It was like being a baby, in reverse. Every day for an infant means some new little thing learned; every day for the old means some little thing lost. Names slip away, dates mean nothing, sequences become muddled, and faces blurred. Both infancy and age are tiring times. -- Elizabeth Taylor
She looked ready to be wounded for everybody, -- Elizabeth Taylor
Being able to go on location and see the world was the greatest perk of all. -- Elizabeth Taylor
If you can't laugh at yourself, you're cooked! -- Elizabeth Taylor
I've only slept with the men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim? -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life. -- Elizabeth Taylor
She had about her a strong smell of hair-spray and her lunch-time whisky. -- Elizabeth Taylor
This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly recalled from our own childhoods. -- Elizabeth Taylor
There's no deodorant like success. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Give. Remember always to give. That is the one thing that will make you grow. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I just loved the feeling of flying. I could jump six feet bareback and it was the closest thing to being Pegasus and flying next to God. It's the most liberating freedom-making feeling in the world. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
So much is said with the electricity of the eyes, the intensity of a whisper. Less is more. -- Elizabeth Taylor
On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Everything makes me nervous - except making films. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I always wanted to have a fragrance, and I always wanted to be able to connect with people in ways other than through film. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Originally, we were going to set up a cappuccino bar in the showroom, but we've been so busy, ... We decided when we're old and grey, we're going to set up a coffee shop, and we formed the company about 18 months ago when we thought of the name. It's going to be TLC - Tastes Like Chocolate. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me. -- Elizabeth Taylor
If it is not to make the world better what is money for? -- Elizabeth Taylor
A belly laugh increases the ability of your immune system to fight infections. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Remember always to give. That is the thing that will make you grow ... -- Elizabeth Taylor
I know I'm vulgar, but would you have me any other way? -- Elizabeth Taylor
They Weren't Allowed to Die There. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Why shouldn't gay people be allowed to be able to marry? Those against gay marriages say marriage should only be between a man and a woman. God, I of all people know that doesn't always work! -- Elizabeth Taylor
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." -- Elizabeth Taylor
People are sorry for brides who lose their husbands early, from some accident, or war. And they should be sorry, Mrs Palfrey thought. But the other thing is worse. -- Elizabeth Taylor
When women stops blushing, she has lost the most powerful weapon of charm. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I've always preferred animals to little girls or boys. I had my first horse - actually it was a Newfoundland pony - when I was three, and I loved riding, without anyone shackling me - riding bareback as fast as I could. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Kate refused to go to bed - for if she slept, she would have to wake up, she said, and that she could not bear to do-to face afresh the grief she was as yet so little used to. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
With Theo's help and Nora's acquiescence she had begun, oysterlike, to coat over, to conceal what could not be borne as it was. The letter was not mentioned again. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Clark Gable was the epitome of the movie star - so romantic, such bearing, such friendliness. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Time went by. It could be proved that it did, although so little happened. -- Elizabeth Taylor
My plans for today are to hang about hoping for a glimpse of her, to have my heart eaten away by the thought of her; to feel my blood bounding maddeningly, ridiculously, like a young boy's; to despair; to realise the weight of my misery and hunger with each step I take. -- Elizabeth Taylor
a bronze lustre; pearls were twisted round her wrists -- Elizabeth Taylor
It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They never remembered having seen her. She did not like to seem (even to herself) so much more caught up in the importance of others when they cared so little for her. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I had a hollow leg. I could drink everyone under the table and not get drunk. My capacity was terrifying. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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 -- Elizabeth Taylor
I will love Michael Jackson forever. -- Elizabeth Taylor
It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers. -- Elizabeth Taylor
You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves. -- Elizabeth Taylor
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Every breath you take today should be with someone else in mind ... -- Elizabeth Taylor
Without homosexuals there'd be no Hollywood. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I loved being admired by Richard. It was the kind of admiration that mattered to me. I felt adored, worshipped. -- Elizabeth Taylor
You might as well live -- Elizabeth Taylor
Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses. -- Elizabeth Taylor
When I'm not with the one I love, I love the one I'm with. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Little jointed stringy things the shape of tadpoles drifted across his vision. He had to keep blinking his eyes to get rid of them, but soon they drifted back. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
The whole point is that writing has a pattern and life hasn't. Life is so untidy. Art is so short and life so long. It is not possible to have perfection in life but it is possible to have perfection in a novel. -- Elizabeth Taylor
When people say: She's got everything. I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I wear perfume even when I'm alone -- Elizabeth Taylor
I'm not like anyone. I'm me. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I hate being called "Liz", because it can sound like such a hiss. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
The beauty of fragrance is that it speaks to your heart and hopefully someone else's. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Looked a lost, pathetic thing, like all old letters; the moment it had matched had gone so long ago. -- Elizabeth Taylor
What do you expect me to do? Sleep alone? -- Elizabeth Taylor
I believe in the difference between men and women. In fact, I embrace the difference. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Now is the time for guts and guile -- Elizabeth Taylor
When the sun comes up, I have morals again. -- Elizabeth Taylor
It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another. -- Elizabeth Taylor
People are different in different places,' he thought hazily. 'And if they're all right in one place, it's best to leave them there. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I'm not afraid. Life is just such an adventure to me. -- Elizabeth Taylor
You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I do enjoy life, I really do. Especially if I wake up the next day. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I never tried to act until A Place in the Sun. -- Elizabeth Taylor
There has never been such a silence. -- Elizabeth Taylor
The most bitter thing for a child is to see in another just the kind of son his mother deserved, -- Elizabeth Taylor
I have a woman's body and a child's emotions. -- Elizabeth Taylor
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. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I think I'm finally growing up - and about time. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife. -- Elizabeth Taylor
For all civilisations are like elaborate campings-out, a complicated picnic in the face of nature's discomforts. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Money is the best deodorant. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I fell off my pink cloud with a thud. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on. -- Elizabeth Taylor
On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I never face the day without perfume. -- Elizabeth Taylor
Look, sweetheart, I can drink you under any goddamn table you want, so don't worry about me. -- Elizabeth Taylor