Best 137 quotes of Elizabeth Taylor on MyQuotes

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

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.

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.

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 agenda

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?

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.

Being able to go on location and see the world was the greatest perk of all.

Big girls need big diamonds.

Every breath you take today should be with someone else in mind.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

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

Follow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come.

Fragrance is an incredibly intimate thing. It can evoke very specific thoughts or memories and is a little different for each person who wears it. I also think it's the most accessible luxury.

How can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness?

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

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit

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 don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

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 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.

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.

I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.

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.

If you can't laugh at yourself, you're cooked!

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.

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

I hate being called "Liz", because it can sound like such a hiss.

I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet.... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short.

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 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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

I just loved the feeling of flying. I could jump six feet bareback and it was the closest thing to being Pegasus and flying next to God. It's the most liberating freedom-making feeling in the world.

I know I'm vulgar, but would you have me any other way?

I left home as soon as I could, when I was 18. I thought I was in love and got married - the press called it Prince Charming and Cinderella. He was a Hilton so I was the poor little Cinderella. And when I got a divorce nine months later I never told the court why, but he was cruel.

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