Elizabeth Taylor Quotes

1. "You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal."
                    
2.  "When the sun comes up, I have morals again."
            
3.   "It's not the having, it's the getting."
             

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

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


 
               
 6.  "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."

           
 
7. " I fell off my pink cloud with a thud."
                   
8.  "When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow."
      

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

                                                                                                                10.    "I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions."

11. "I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?"
                
  12.    "So much to do, so little done, such things to be."

               

                                                                                                             13.   "I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it."
          
14.   "Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells."
              
15.  "I think I'm finally growing up - and about time."

                                      16. "It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting."

              
17.  "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."

                   
18.  "It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance."
            
                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

  19. "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."

20. "Big girls need big diamonds."

                                                                                                                      21. "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.”
  
                   
 22. "Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses."

23. "Success is a great deodorant"

24. "Everything makes me nervous - except making films."                    

 25.   "Marriage is a great institution."



                 
 26. "People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz."

              

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
  27. "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."

                

28.  "[In reference to Michael Jackson] In my estimation he is the true King of Rock Pop and Soul”"
                   

 29." I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on."
                
 30.  "Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense." (on Richard Burton)”

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

                                                                                                                     
32. "I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife."

33. "I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage."

   
                   
                                                                                                                 34. "I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me".

35. "It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another."

36. "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."
            

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

                    

   38. "Americans are getting so lazy. Now they have to get up and get some form of exercise. The university has made a brilliant move."

39. " I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?"

40. "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."