Top 163 Quotes & Sayings by Elizabeth Taylor - Page 2

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

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

Money is the best deodorant.

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 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.

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.

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'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.

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

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.

I wear perfume even when I’m alone

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.

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

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.

I never face the day without perfume.

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

What do you expect me to do? Sleep alone?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Without homosexuals there'd be no Hollywood.

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.

Now is the time for guts and guile.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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 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 will love Michael Jackson forever.

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

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

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].

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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