Elizabeth Taylor Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Marriage is a great institution.

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

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

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

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

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

I don't love acting; I love chocolate.

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

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.

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

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

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 don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

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.

[On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence.

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

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.

Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive.

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

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.

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

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

I will love Michael Jackson forever.

I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously.

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.

On Mother's Day: It's just a rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like.

Everything was handed to me - looks, fame, wealth, honour, love. I rarely had to fight for anything

This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly recalled from our own childhoods.

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

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.

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

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 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.