Elizabeth Taylor Quotes & Sayings

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal. — 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

You can't choose between right and wrong by taking a census. — Elizabeth Taylor

Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive. — Elizabeth Taylor

Follow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come. — Elizabeth Taylor

On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second. — Elizabeth Taylor

All I see in the mirror every morning is a face that needs washing. — 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 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

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

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

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

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 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

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 sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes. — Elizabeth Taylor

I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit — Elizabeth Taylor

I've only slept with the men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim? — 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

She looked ready to be wounded for everybody, — Elizabeth Taylor

Clark Gable was the epitome of the movie star - so romantic, such bearing, such friendliness. — 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 sung in the shower. Now I make the stage a mental shower in order not to get too uptight and enjoy it. — 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 find vocabulary to be a great drawback. — Elizabeth Taylor

Michael Jackson is one of the most normal people I know. — Elizabeth Taylor

Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people. — 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

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

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life. — 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

There has never been such a silence. — 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

I know I'm vulgar, but would you have me any other way? — Elizabeth Taylor

Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together. — Elizabeth Taylor

Without homosexuals there'd be no Hollywood. — 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 haven't read any of the autobiographies about me. — 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

They Weren't Allowed to Die There. — Elizabeth Taylor

The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy. — Elizabeth Taylor

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time. — Elizabeth Taylor

Give. Remember always to give. That is the one thing that will make you grow. — Elizabeth Taylor

The beauty of fragrance is that it speaks to your heart and hopefully someone else's. — Elizabeth Taylor

a bronze lustre; pearls were twisted round her wrists — Elizabeth Taylor

Thanks Darling for the beautiful flowers and all the prayers. Now can you just get my puppy past security? — 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'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

What do you expect me to do? Sleep alone? — 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 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

Everything was handed to me - looks, fame, wealth, honour, love. I rarely had to fight for anything — Elizabeth Taylor

I loved being admired by Richard. It was the kind of admiration that mattered to me. I felt adored, worshipped. — Elizabeth Taylor

Seeing one face continually in crowds is one of the minor annoyances of being in love. — 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

I'm not afraid. Life is just such an adventure to me. — Elizabeth Taylor

Michael Jackson is part of my heart. We would do anything for each other. — Elizabeth Taylor

When the sun comes up, I have morals again. — 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

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

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

Time went by. It could be proved that it did, although so little happened. — Elizabeth Taylor

No matter what happens, I'm loud, noisy, earthy and ready for much more living. — Elizabeth Taylor

I have a woman's body and a child's emotions. — 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

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've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage. — 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

Every breath you take today should be with someone else in mind ... — Elizabeth Taylor

Everything makes me nervous - except making films. — Elizabeth Taylor

I believe in the difference between men and women. In fact, I embrace the difference. — Elizabeth Taylor

I love to be casual and comfortable, but I also love the easy glamour of wearing jewelry all the time. — 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

There is no deodorant like success. — 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

When I hear the name Michael Jackson, I think of brilliance, of dazzling stars, lasers and deep emotions. I think he is one of the world's biggest and greatest stars, and it just so happens that he is one of the most gifted music makers the world has ever known. 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. I love you Michael. — Elizabeth Taylor

I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions. — 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

John Wayne is as tough as an old nut and as soft as a yellow ribbon. — Elizabeth Taylor

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife. — Elizabeth Taylor

I'm not like anyone. I'm me. — Elizabeth Taylor

She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. — Elizabeth Taylor

It's not the having, it's the getting. — Elizabeth Taylor

When women stops blushing, she has lost the most powerful weapon of charm. — 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

On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him. — Elizabeth Taylor

A strong film director does leave you to your devices. A strong director allows you to be free and you trust that he's there and he will tell you if you've gone too far. A strong director allows you to be much more experimental and take greater chances than a director who isn't secure within himself. — Elizabeth Taylor

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells. — 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

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

Now is the time for guts and guile — 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'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive. — 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

Remember always to give. That is the thing that will make you grow ... — Elizabeth Taylor

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

I hate being called "Liz", because it can sound like such a hiss. — 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

There's no deodorant like success. — Elizabeth Taylor