Quotes About Elizabeth Taylor

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Elizabeth Taylor was never told what to wear or paid to carry a certain handbag,

Daphne Guinness

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Sugar Ray Leonard's retirements last about as long as Elizabeth Taylor's marriages.

Bob Arum

#8. Elizabeth Taylor has reinvented herself and her image time and time again. The results have often helped redefine modern fashion.

Bo Derek

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. It wouldn't be bad to look like a cross between Rita Hayworth and Elizabeth Taylor.

Yasmine Bleeth

#12. A gift to mankind; the next Elizabeth Taylor in the making

Isaac Mizrahi

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.

Don Rickles

#16. 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

#17. I've waited all my life to say this ... I weigh less than Elizabeth Taylor!

Totie Fields

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Elizabeth Taylor was so fat that whenever she went to London in a red dress, 30 passengers would try to board her.

Joan Rivers

#23. 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

#24. He's not very fast, but maybe Elizabeth Taylor can't sing.

Darrell Royal

#25. 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

#26. The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.

Leslie Caron

#27. Elizabeth Taylor is one of the great cultural icons. She is a part of our history and should be celebrated. ... This presentation is very special for the community, there are so many people who want to understand this side of Elizabeth Taylor.

Jeffrey Deitch

#28. Elizabeth Taylor's so fat she puts mayonnaise on aspirin.

Joan Rivers

#29. Elizabeth Taylor was an incurable romantic at heart. She never gave up on the notion that a love strong enough to last a lifetime was waiting for her around the next corner.

Teresa Medeiros

#30. You know, Elizabeth Taylor must be in Heaven going, 'Alright, fire two honey!'

Dana Carvey

#31. There's something I call telegenekicity, and it's not about just models. Of course, I can reference Iman, Tatiana Patitz, Kelly Emberg, Bonnie Berman - I go all the way back - but I think that you develop an eye to register iconic images - like Greta Garbo and Elizabeth Taylor.

Michael Flutie

#32. You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.

Francesca Annis

#33. Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown.

Tony Benn

#34. To be a queen , do you have to rule a country or marry a king? Not necessarily---there are other ways to be considered royal today. For example, take Elizabeth Taylor or Jacqueline Onassis. Would you dare to call either of these grand dames less than regal?

Kris Waldherr

#35. Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind of obsessed with 'Jersey Shore.' People don't give them enough credit for how entertaining they are.

Margaret Cho

#36. I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.

Francesca Annis

#37. Playing Elizabeth Taylor was probably the hardest job I've ever done.

Sherilyn Fenn

#38. Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

Francesca Annis

#39. Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.

Joan Rivers

#40. When I was a kid I used to go to the movies, double features in outdoor theaters, and my parents used to take us to see like, 'Cat On a Hot Tin Roof' or something like that, with Elizabeth Taylor.

Michael Biehn

#41. Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.

Joe Jonas

#42. I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But when I see myself on the screen I say: 'Oh shoot! What are they talking about?'

Farrah Fawcett

#43. Elizabeth Taylor is not beautiful, she is pretty - I was beautiful.

Ava Gardner

#44. I've always been fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor, and I had read that her first kiss happened on a film set, which actually made me a little sad. You need to have normal experiences of your own.

Emma Watson

#45. J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday.

Steven Cojocaru

#46. Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.

Joan Rivers

#47. My friends are very rich. Elizabeth Taylor sends flowers the size of the bathtub. I'm not kidding.

Charles Nelson Reilly

#48. Today Washington is our Hollywood, the Senate our Warner Bros., the White House our Beverly Hills. People who never read a line of a movie magazine deal with the lives of leaders as if they were Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

Ellen Goodman

#49. I've come close to death more times than Elizabeth Taylor has said 'I do.'

Mireya Mayor

#50. Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her.

Michael Jackson

#51. The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of that; she was the ultimate celebrity of excess and glamour, and she worked major sun hats.

Philip Treacy

#52. Elizabeth Taylor taught me that if you do your hair and makeup first then take a hot bath right before you leave, it brings out your inner glow and takes away the powdery look from makeup. I do that right before every date.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#53. Beirut is the Elizabeth Taylor of cities: insane, beautiful, falling apart, aging, and forever drama laden.She'll also marry any infatuated suitor who promises to make her life more comfortable, no matter how inappropriate he is. (p.88)

Rabih Alameddine

#54. When Ava Gardner get in a taxi, the driver knows at once she's Ava Gardner. It's the same for Lana Turner or Elizabeth Taylor, but not for me. I'm never Grace Kelly, I'm always someone who looks like Grace Kelly.

Grace Kelly

#55. Everybody says I can't act. They said the same thing about Elizabeth Taylor. And they were wrong. She was great in A Place in the Sun. I'll never get the right part, anything I really want. My looks are against me. They're too specific.

Marilyn Monroe

#56. the girls had on enough makeup to make Elizabeth Taylor look unadorned

Dan Ariely

#57. For ten generations her family had styled themselves pharaohs. The Ptolemies were in fact Macedonian Greek, which makes Cleopatra approximately as Egyptian as Elizabeth Taylor.

Stacy Schiff

#58. I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.

Elizabeth Taylor

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

Elizabeth Taylor

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. 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

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

Elizabeth Taylor

#64. She looked ready to be wounded for everybody,

Elizabeth Taylor

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. She had about her a strong smell of hair-spray and her lunch-time whisky.

Elizabeth Taylor

#71. 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

#72. Just in case you get pneumonia or die. The dangerous bits are always the last days of shooting.

Elizabeth Taylor

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. I do enjoy life, I really do. Especially if I wake up the next day.

Elizabeth Taylor

#78. The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.

Elizabeth Taylor

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

Elizabeth Taylor

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.

Elizabeth Taylor

#83. Follow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come.

Elizabeth Taylor

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. The disaster of being old was in not feeling safe to venture anywhere, of seeing freedom put out of reach.

Elizabeth Taylor

#87. Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.

Elizabeth Taylor

#88. She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.

Elizabeth Taylor

#89. Oh, I love red. I'm very loyal to my colors. I love violet.

Elizabeth Taylor

#90. I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.

Elizabeth Taylor

#91. 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

#92. Without homosexuals there'd be no Hollywood.

Elizabeth Taylor

#93. She seemed to be lovely still to herself, as if no amount of looking into mirrors could ruin her illusion.

Elizabeth Taylor

#94. Marriage is a great institution.

Elizabeth Taylor

#95. 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

#96. 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

#97. Elizabeth Anne Taylor April 25, 1974 - April 25, 2004 Our Sweetheart, Only resting

MaryJanice Davidson

#98. 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

#99. I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.

Elizabeth Taylor

#100. 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