Elizabeth Taylor
Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive.Collection: Cat
There's no deodorant like success.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Bunch
... there is no deodorant like success.Collection: Deodorant
John Wayne is as tough as an old nut and as soft as a yellow ribbon.Collection: Nuts
I never tried to act until A Place in the Sun.Collection: Sun
Everything was handed to me - looks, fame, wealth, honour, love. I rarely had to fight for anythingCollection: Fighting
I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously.Collection: Taken
A strong film director does leave you to your devices. A strong director allows you to be free and you trust that he's there and he will tell you if you've gone too far. A strong director allows you to be much more experimental and take greater chances than a director who isn't secure within himself.Collection: Strong
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.Collection: Husband
[On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence.Collection: Death
I find it rather tedious working with some actors who have to go into a corner and bounce up and down, shake their hands and arms, saying to the director, "Just a second - I'll be ready in a few minutes, " while all the other actors are waiting around to get in. Then they say, "OK! I'm ready now." And then they come on and do it exactly the same way they've done it in rehearsal.Collection: Hands
Oh, I love red. I'm very loyal to my colors. I love violet.Collection: Color
Clark Gable was the epitome of the movie star - so romantic, such bearing, such friendliness.Collection: Stars
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.Collection: Rocks
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.Collection: Thinking
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."Collection: Character
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.Collection: Past
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.Collection: Should
Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense." (on Richard Burton)Collection: Sexy
On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him.Collection: Directors
I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.Collection: Vocabulary
A "name" no longer carries a film. People used to go to the cinema to see a "John Wayne film." And you don't have that thing happening now except in the rock world, which has taken the event out of movies.Collection: Taken
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.Collection: Mother
I never face the day without perfume.Collection: Faces
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.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Real
Look, sweetheart, I can drink you under any goddamn table you want, so don't worry about me.Collection: Drinking
I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have watched a great artist perform, and never richer than when I have scored a big check to fight AIDS.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Hate
Any home where there is love constitutes a family and all families should have the same legal rights, including the right to marry and have or adopt children. Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else?Collection: Children
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.Collection: Children
I wear perfume even when I’m aloneCollection: Perfume
When you're older, you'll appreciate the advantages of sleeping alone.Collection: Sleep
I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.Collection: Lessons
If it is not to make the world better what is money for?Collection: World
Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else? What it comes down to, ultimately, is love. How can anything bad come out of love? The bad stuff comes out of mistrust, misunderstanding and, God knows, from hate and from ignorance.Collection: Hate
Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.Collection: Dream
I use my fame now when I want to help a cause or other people.Collection: People
I believe in mind over matter and doing anything you set your mind on.Collection: Believe
I feel like 45. I don't look bad for someone my age, with my history of illnesses and operations and all those anesthetics. When they knock you out, it gives you time to catch up on your beauty sleep.Collection: Sleep
I mean, how many young women get a set of rubies just for doing something wholesome like swimming laps? Or win a diamond ring at Ping-Pong with their husband... ? Well, I did, and for all of these memories and the people in my life I feel blessed.Collection: Husband
Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.Collection: Inspirational
The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion.Collection: Mother
You can be fat and still be sexy . It all depends on how you feel about yourselfCollection: Sexy
If you can't laugh at yourself, you're cooked!Collection: Inspirational
I don't love acting; I love chocolate.Collection: Chocolate
Michael Jackson is part of my heart. We would do anything for each other.Collection: Heart