Top 100 Elizabeth Taylor Quotes
#2. 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.
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#4. 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.
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#5. She had about her a strong smell of hair-spray and her lunch-time whisky.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Just in case you get pneumonia or die. The dangerous bits are always the last days of shooting.
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#8. 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.
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#9. 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.
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#10. The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.
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#12. 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.
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#13. Follow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come.
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#14. 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.
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#15. The disaster of being old was in not feeling safe to venture anywhere, of seeing freedom put out of reach.
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#16. She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
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#17. Oh, I love red. I'm very loyal to my colors. I love violet.
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#19. 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.
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#20. 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.
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#21. 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.
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#23. 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.
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#24. 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.
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#25. 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.
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#27. 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.
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#28. 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.
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#29. 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.
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#30. I used never to think about them - Mother and Father - I don't think one should have to think about one's parents'.
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#34. 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.
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#35. 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.
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#37. 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.
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#38. No matter what happens, I'm loud, noisy, earthy and ready for much more living.
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#39. 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.
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#40. Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.
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#42. 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.
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#43. 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.
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#44. Everything was handed to me - looks, fame, wealth, honour, love. I rarely had to fight for anything
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#45. 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.
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#46. 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.
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#47. I always wanted to have a fragrance, and I always wanted to be able to connect with people in ways other than through film.
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#48. 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.
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#49. I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.
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#50. A belly laugh increases the ability of your immune system to fight infections.
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#52. 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.
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#53. 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.
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#54. 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.
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#55. I've only slept with the men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?
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#56. How can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness?
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#57. I had a hollow leg. I could drink everyone under the table and not get drunk. My capacity was terrifying.
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#58. It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.
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#59. 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.
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#60. I believe in the difference between men and women. In fact, I embrace the difference.
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#61. For all civilisations are like elaborate campings-out, a complicated picnic in the face of nature's discomforts.
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#62. Every breath you take today should be with someone else in mind ...
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#63. 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.
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#65. 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.
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#67. Time went by. It could be proved that it did, although so little happened.
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#69. 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.
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#70. Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.
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#72. 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.
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#73. Seems like we always spend the best part of our time ... just saying goodbye.
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#74. 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.
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#75. 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?
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#76. I loved being admired by Richard. It was the kind of admiration that mattered to me. I felt adored, worshipped.
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#77. 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
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#78. Looked a lost, pathetic thing, like all old letters; the moment it had matched had gone so long ago.
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#79. 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.
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#80. You can be fat and still be sexy . It all depends on how you feel about yourself
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#81. 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.
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#85. When women stops blushing, she has lost the most powerful weapon of charm.
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#86. I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.
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#87. I hate being called "Liz", because it can sound like such a hiss.
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#88. Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.
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#89. 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.
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#90. 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.
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#91. So much is said with the electricity of the eyes, the intensity of a whisper. Less is more.
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#92. 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].
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#93. Clark Gable was the epitome of the movie star - so romantic, such bearing, such friendliness.
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#94. Thanks Darling for the beautiful flowers and all the prayers. Now can you just get my puppy past security?
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#95. I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.
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#96. 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.
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#97. 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.
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#98. 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.
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#99. Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense. (on Richard Burton)
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