Elizabeth Taylor quotes
Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Big girls need big diamonds.
I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.
I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
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.
I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.
I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.
I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.
I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.
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.
I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.
I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.
I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.
I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?
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.
It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.
It's not the having, it's the getting.
Marriage is a great institution.
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.
People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.
Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense." (on Richard Burton)
So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.
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.
You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.