C. Elizabeth Quotes

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.

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

What do you expect me to do? Sleep alone?

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

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.

Without homosexuals there'd be no Hollywood.

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.

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

Clark Gable was the epitome of the movie star - so romantic, such bearing, such friendliness.

I love going to rock concerts, I love to lose myself in that vast wave of rhythm and body heat and get on the same vibe.

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.

Judaism had absolutely nothing to do with my past marriage to Mike [Todd] or my upcoming marriage to Eddie Fisher, both of whom were Jewish. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time.

Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense." (on Richard Burton)

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

I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.

Something always made me save myself. Either the Betty Ford Center or going onstage to perform in the theater when many people didn't think I could do it.

Oh, I love red. I'm very loyal to my colors. I love violet.

Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once quipped, "She's as wistful as an iron factory."

I had a hollow leg. I could drink everyone under the table and not get drunk. My capacity was terrifying.

There's still so much more to do. I can't sit back and be complacent, and none of us should be. I get around now in a wheelchair, but I get around.

I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.

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

There's no deodorant like success.

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.

... there is no deodorant like success.

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.

I never tried to act until A Place in the Sun.

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

You know, guys, it is possible for two women to work together and get along.

I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith--- any religion.

It's estimated that one million girls in India 'disappear' every year.

I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.

Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.

It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.

if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.

But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty is gone.

Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?

Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.

She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction of not being his mother or his nurse.

Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every year and a morning in every day, let alone things like birds, and Shakespeare, and one's work.

Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning of backs, that cold space between their two unhappy bodies.

If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.

It's powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.

We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged.

I'm proud of my Native American heritage.

I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody.

My parents and I were all afraid of being poor - really poor.

There are a lot of things that people say about Hillary Clinton. But nobody says that she doesn't know how to throw a punch.

Hillary Clinton is a fighter, she's out there, she's tough.