Top 100 Quotes About Elizabeth Taylor
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.
Christian Louboutin
#7. John Wayne is as tough as an old nut and as soft as a yellow ribbon.
Elizabeth Taylor
#9. 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
#10. Elizabeth studied the blurry tabloid photo, which showed her cousin Mary Stuart leaving a Paris disco at dawn, drunkenly clinging to the arm of a French tennis pro. The message was very clear. Put passion first and you end up neither loved nor respected.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#11. For me, poetry is the colour of Elizabeth Taylor's eyes, or the pauses in Pinter's plays - only the pauses, not the words.
Roger Lewis
#12. People want things to be complicated, but they have to love themselves first and then each other and then it will seed everywhere
Elizabeth Taylor-Wey
#13. The problem is you bring up the name Elizabeth Taylor, people think of jewelry; they think of husbands; the 'la dolce vita' lifestyle. I'm happy to have gotten to know her when I got to know her.
Firooz Zahedi
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. She had about her a strong smell of hair-spray and her lunch-time whisky.
Elizabeth Taylor
#17. 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
#18. Elizabeth Taylor was never told what to wear or paid to carry a certain handbag,
Daphne Guinness
#19. Just in case you get pneumonia or die. The dangerous bits are always the last days of shooting.
Elizabeth Taylor
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Elizabeth lay face-down on the massage table, and allowed Marco to relieve the stress of the business day with firm and knowing fingers. Success, she decided, was often a matter of knowing when to relax.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#24. My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, 'I'm Dhirubhai Ambani ... may I talk to Nita?' I said, 'It's a wrong number' and put down the phone. Then he called again ... and I said, 'If you're Dhirubhai Ambani, then I'm Elizabeth Taylor.'
Nita Ambani
#25. 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
#26. I do enjoy life, I really do. Especially if I wake up the next day.
Elizabeth Taylor
#27. The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.
Elizabeth Taylor
#28. Sugar Ray Leonard's retirements last about as long as Elizabeth Taylor's marriages.
Bob Arum
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.
Elizabeth Taylor
#33. Elizabeth Taylor has reinvented herself and her image time and time again. The results have often helped redefine modern fashion.
Bo Derek
#34. I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well.
Lindsay Lohan
#35. Follow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come.
Elizabeth Taylor
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. The disaster of being old was in not feeling safe to venture anywhere, of seeing freedom put out of reach.
Elizabeth Taylor
#39. Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
Elizabeth Taylor
#40. She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
Elizabeth Taylor
#41. Oh, I love red. I'm very loyal to my colors. I love violet.
Elizabeth Taylor
#42. Elizabeth Taylor has a big heart. She recently built a halfway house for girls who don't want to go all the way.
Red Buttons
#43. It wouldn't be bad to look like a cross between Rita Hayworth and Elizabeth Taylor.
Yasmine Bleeth
#45. 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
#47. She seemed to be lovely still to herself, as if no amount of looking into mirrors could ruin her illusion.
Elizabeth Taylor
#48. A gift to mankind; the next Elizabeth Taylor in the making
Isaac Mizrahi
#50. 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
#51. My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.
Dennis Christopher
#52. I've had the honor and the pleasure and gift of having known Elizabeth Taylor for a number of years. You know, you sit down with her, she slings hash, she sits there and cusses like a sailor, and she's hilarious.
Johnny Depp
#53. 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
#54. Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
Don Rickles
#55. You can imagine what a trip this is for a Jewish girl from Great Neck-I get to win an Academy Award and meet Elizabeth Taylor at the same time.
Julia Phillips
#56. I've waited all my life to say this ... I weigh less than Elizabeth Taylor!
Totie Fields
#57. Elizabeth Anne Taylor April 25, 1974 - April 25, 2004 Our Sweetheart, Only resting
MaryJanice Davidson
#58. outshines little Elizabeth Taylor as Velvet. The child is completely natural and unaffected, with a very sweet expressive face and the most beautiful soft blue eyes I've seen on the screen in a long time" (quoted in Haggerty, 2011). Taylor remained contracted to MGM for the next
Ellis Cashmore
#59. 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
#61. If you ever hear anybody refer to Elizabeth Taylor as Liz Taylor, you can be pretty sure the person doesn't know her.
Dominick Dunne
#62. 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
#63. Who really needs a ring that big? I ask you. It was rings that big that made our grandmothers think Elizabeth Taylor was a whore.
Rainbow Rowell
#64. Elizabeth Taylor was the first star for whom an offscreen narrative was equally as important as an onscreen one. Her private life became as much of a driving force of her fame and success as any role she played in the movies.
William J. Mann
#66. Seeing one face continually in crowds is one of the minor annoyances of being in love.
Elizabeth Taylor
#67. 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
#68. Elizabeth Taylor was so fat that whenever she went to London in a red dress, 30 passengers would try to board her.
Joan Rivers
#69. 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
#70. 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
#72. 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
#73. All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.
Tracy Letts
#74. 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
#75. I believe in mind over matter and doing anything you set your mind on.
Elizabeth Taylor
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. If there's anything I hate is someone who questions my credit.
Mike Todd
#80. 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
#82. He's not very fast, but maybe Elizabeth Taylor can't sing.
Darrell Royal
#86. Great movie stars like Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor who were capable of saying so much without saying anything at all merely by carrying themselves in a classic fashion that's timeless yet relatable.
Lily Collins
#87. Taylor Elizabeth Morris, will you do me the honor of being mine forever?
Kelly Elliott
#88. Being able to go on location and see the world was the greatest perk of all.
Elizabeth Taylor
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.
Leslie Caron
#94. 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
#96. 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
#97. No matter what happens, I'm loud, noisy, earthy and ready for much more living.
Elizabeth Taylor
#98. All I see in the mirror every morning is a face that needs washing.
Elizabeth Taylor
#99. 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
#100. Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.
Elizabeth Taylor
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