Top 163 Quotes & Sayings by Elizabeth Taylor

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actress Elizabeth Taylor.

Last updated on December 23, 2024.

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the world’s highest paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute named her the seventh-greatest female screen legend of Classic Hollywood cinema.

English - Actress | February 27, 1932 - March 23, 2011

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I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.

Elizabeth Taylor

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

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

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Big girls need big diamonds.

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Marriage is a great institution.

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

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Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

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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.

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Success is a great deodorant.

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

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

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I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

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

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

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I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Put on some lipstick and pull yourself together.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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I don't love acting; I love chocolate.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.