Elizabeth Taylor famous quotes

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

#Kindness #Positivity #Connections

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

#Children #Fighting #Artist

Put on some lipstick and pull yourself together.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Together #Lipstick

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.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Would Be #Ponies #Estates

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.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Inspiring #Beautiful #Fighting

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

#Mother #Passion #Important

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.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Inspirational #Book #Beer

I always wanted to have a fragrance, and I always wanted to be able to connect with people in ways other than through film.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#People #Able #Way

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

#Inspirational #Patience #Time

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

#Running #Fun #Acting

There has never been such a silence.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Death #Silence

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.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Character #People #Laughing

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
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Gay #Men #Rights

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

#Order #Uptight #Stage

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

#Adventure #Doors #Looks

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.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Gymnastics #Want #Force

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

#Sexy #Clever #How You Feel

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.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Feet #Flying #Feelings

Money is the best deodorant.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Money #Deodorant

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

#Divorce #Home #Months

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.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Mother #Eye #Eight

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

#Body #Gypsy #Wanted

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

#Children #Thinking #Childhood

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.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Thinking #Want #Causes

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

#Ignorance #People #Dying

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

#Believe #Mind #Matter

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

#Goes On #World #Able

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

#Helping Others #World #Who You Are

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

#Pneumonia #Shooting #Lasts

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

#Movie #Gambling #Film

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

#Acting #Technique #Done

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

#Marriage #Wife #Married

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

#Awards #Needs #Humanitarian

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Clouds

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

#Directors #Speak #Film

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

#Friendship #Real #Scandal

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

#Hate #Exercise #Skins

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Inspirational #People #Survival

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

#Waiting #Doe #Patterns

Big girls need big diamonds.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Girl #Fashion #Needs

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

#Memories #Thinking #Luxury

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

#Inspirational #Passion #My Passion

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

#Lessons #Actresses

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

#Birthday #Growing Up #Thinking

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

#Queens #Fun #Real

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

#Hate #Compassion #Race

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

#Jewelry #Easy #Glamour

Now is the time for guts and guile,
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Guile #Guts

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

#Husband #Jewels #Doe

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

#Inspirational #Laughing #Laugh At Yourself

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

#Heart #Speak #Fragrance

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

#Hate #Independent #Ideas

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.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Custodians #Care #Trophies

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.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Real #Ideas #Two

I never face the day without perfume.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Faces #Perfume

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

#Dream #Thinking #Idols

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

#Soccer #Biting #Violence

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

#Strong #Directors #Doe

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

#World

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.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Beautiful #Great Love #Custodians

I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Taken #Critics

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

#Way #Vulgar

Look, sweetheart, I can drink you under any ***** table you want, so don't worry about me.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Beer #Worry #Looks

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

#Life Changing #Book #Library

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

#People #Answers #Tomorrow

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

#Birthday #Growing Up #Men

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

#Fake People #Ordinary #Housewife

Success is a great deodorant.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Life #Success #Congratulations

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.
-- Elizabeth Taylor

#Self Esteem #Done #Self Determination

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

#Sarcastic #Dog #Witty

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

#Congratulations #Past #Smell