Elizabeth Taylor Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

My heart…my mind… are broken. I loved Michael with all my soul and I can't imagine life without him. We had so much in common and we had such loving fun together.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Big girls need big diamonds.

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.

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

[Marilyn Monroe] seemed to have a kind of unconscious glow about her physical self that was innocent, like a child. When she posed nude, it was 'Gee, I am kind of, you know, sort of dishy,' like she enjoyed it without being egotistical.