Elizabeth Taylor
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.Collection: Wedding
I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.Collection: Courage
I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?Collection: Women
Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.Collection: Best
Marriage is a great institution.Collection: Marriage
Success is a great deodorant.Collection: Success
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.Collection: Time
It's not the having, it's the getting.Collection: Wisdom
You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.Collection: Friendship
Everything makes me nervous - except making films.Collection: Movies
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.Collection: Age
I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.Collection: Failure
I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.
When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.
I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.
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.
So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.
I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.
Big girls need big diamonds.
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 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.
I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.
I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.
I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.
People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.
I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.
I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
Follow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come.Collection: Dream
I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshitCollection: Bullshit
It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.Collection: Inspirational
You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way.Collection: Inspiring
Put on some lipstick and pull yourself together.Collection: Makeup
You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.Collection: Helping Others
Give. Remember always to give. That is the one thing that will make you grow.Collection: Giving
How can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness?Collection: Sadness
I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being - to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame.Collection: Hate
I'm not like anyone. I'm me.Collection: Originality
Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.Collection: Break Up
You can't cry on a diamond's shoulder, and diamonds won't keep you warm at night, but they're sure fun when the sun shines.Collection: Fun
All of my life I've spent a lot of time with gay men - Montgomery Clift, Jimmy Dean, Rock Hudson - who are my colleagues, coworkers, confidantes, my closest friends, but I never thought of who they slept with! They were just the people I loved. I could never understand why they couldn't be afforded the same rights and protections as all of the rest of us. There is no gay agenda, it's a human agendaCollection: Gay
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.Collection: Self Esteem
The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.Collection: Life Changing
The beauty of fragrance is that it speaks to your heart and hopefully someone else's.Collection: Heart
So much is said with the electricity of the eyes, the intensity of a whisper. Less is more.Collection: Eye
I know I'm vulgar, but would you have me any other way?Collection: Way
I always wanted to have a fragrance, and I always wanted to be able to connect with people in ways other than through film.Collection: People
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.Collection: Queens