Elizabeth taylor quotes

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.

If it is not to make the world better what is money for?

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.

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.

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

When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

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

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.

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.

I wear perfume even when I’m alone

It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.

I don't love acting; I love chocolate.

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

When you're older, you'll appreciate the advantages of sleeping alone.

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.

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.

I was so strictly brought up that the only time I could get away would be on my own pony. I could ride wherever I wanted on my godfather's estate in Kent.I wasn't brought up to be afraid of anything.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

What do you expect me to do? Sleep alone?

I will love Michael Jackson forever.

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.

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.

I've always preferred animals to little girls or boys. I had my first horse - actually it was a Newfoundland pony - when I was three, and I loved riding, without anyone shackling me - riding bareback as fast as I could.

Seems like we always spend the best part of our time just saying goodbye.

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

I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities.

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.

Without homosexuals there'd be no Hollywood.

Being able to go on location and see the world was the greatest perk of all.

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

So much is said with the electricity of the eyes, the intensity of a whisper. Less is more.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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].

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

I use my fame now when I want to help a cause or other people.

My forties are the best time I have ever gone through.

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

When I'm not with the one I love, I love the one I'm with.

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

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.

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

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

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

I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You can be fat and still be sexy . It all depends on how you feel about yourself

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

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

Put on some lipstick and pull yourself together.

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.

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.

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.

The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion.

I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off.

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

If you can't laugh at yourself, you're cooked!

I believe in mind over matter and doing anything you set your mind on.

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.

The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.

It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Now is the time for guts and guile.

Marriage is a great institution.

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.

Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.

I've never thought of my jewelry as trophies. I'm here to take care of it and to love it, for we are only temporary custodians of beauty.

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.

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

A belly laugh increases the ability of your immune system to fight infections.

All of my life I've spent a lot of time with gay men - Montgomery Clift, Jimmy Dean, Rock Hudson - who are my colleagues, coworkers, confidantes, my closest friends, but I never thought of who they slept with! They were just the people I loved. I could never understand why they couldn't be afforded the same rights and protections as all of the rest of us. There is no gay agenda, it's a human agenda

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

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.

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

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.

I'm not like anyone. I'm me.

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.

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

Big girls need big diamonds.

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.

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

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

Look, sweetheart, I can drink you under any goddamn table you want, so don't worry about me.

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.

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

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.

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

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

Money is the best deodorant.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

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.

I like the connection with fans and people who have been supportive of me. And I love the idea of real feedback and a two-way street, which is very, very modern.

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.

To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the director says, "Action!" Then you snap your mind into shape and into the character that you're playing and relate to the people that you're acting with and forget everybody else that you've been joking with.

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

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

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

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

You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.

Marilyn Monroe seemed to have a kind of unconscious glow about her physical self that was innocent, like a child. When she posed nude, it was 'Gee, I am kind of, you know, sort of dishy,' like she enjoyed it without being egotistical.

How can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness?

I never face the day without perfume.

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.