Elizabeth Taylor Quotes

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.

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

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

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].

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

People want things to be complicated, but they have to love themselves first and then each other and then it will seed everywhere

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

Creatively Outspoken and Dramatically Quiet

If love is a battlefield and we all get scars....These were my reminders…my necessary thorns.

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.

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

When people say: she's got everything I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.

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

She seemed to be lovely still to herself, as if no amount of looking into mirrors could ruin her illusion.