Top 180 Elizabeth Taylor Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “John Wayne is as tough as an old nut and as soft as a yellow ribbon.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

52. “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.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

53. “I’m not like anyone. I’m me.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

54. “So much is said with the electricity of the eyes, the intensity of a whisper. Less is more.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

55. “Why shouldn’t gay people be allowed to be able to marry? Those against gay marriages say marriage should only be between a man and a woman. God, I of all people know that doesn’t always work!”

— Elizabeth Taylor

56. “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.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

57. “I’ve never thought of my jewelry as trophies. I’m here to take care of it and to love it, for we are only temporary custodians of beauty.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

58. “Michael Jackson is part of my heart. We would do anything for each other.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

59. “I want it all quickly ’cause I don’t want God to stop and think and wonder if I’m getting more than my share.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

60. “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.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

61. “Maggie the cat is alive. I’m alive.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

62. “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.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

63. “Look, sweetheart, I can drink you under any goddamn table you want, so don’t worry about me.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

64. “There has never been such a silence.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

65. “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.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

66. “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.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

67. “I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too – for being married so many times.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

68. “When you’re fat, the world is divided into two groups – people who bug you and people who leave you alone. The funny thing is, supporters and saboteurs exist in either camp.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

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

— Elizabeth Taylor

70. “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.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

71. “Thanks Darling for the beautiful flowers and all the prayers. Now can you just get my puppy past security?”

— Elizabeth Taylor

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

— Elizabeth Taylor

73. “When women stops blushing, she has lost the most powerful weapon of charm.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

74. “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.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

75. “If it is not to make the world better what is money for?”

— Elizabeth Taylor

76. “Oh, I love red. I’m very loyal to my colors. I love violet.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

77. “I think I’m finally growing up – and about time.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

78. “I’ve always preferred animals to little girls or boys. I had my first horse – actually it was a Newfoundland pony – when I was three, and I loved riding, without anyone shackling me – riding bareback as fast as I could.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

79. “When I’m not with the one I love, I love the one I’m with.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

80. “I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

81. “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.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

82. “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.””

— Elizabeth Taylor

83. “It’s amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don’t want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

84. “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.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

85. “I don’t pretend to be an ordinary housewife.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

86. “I would totally lose myself in the music and be a gypsy. I would go wherever I wanted to in my head – wherever the music took me. My body followed.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

87. “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.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

88. “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.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

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

— Elizabeth Taylor

90. “The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

91. “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.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

92. “Michael Jackson is one of the most normal people I know.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

93. “People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

94. “I think I ended up being the scarlet woman partly because of my rather puritannical upbringing and beliefs. I always chose to think I was in love and that love was synonymous with marriage.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

95. “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.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

96. “You can always avert throwing yourself in front of an oncoming train. There is something that just pulls you away – and it has pulled me away, because I’m not dead yet – just at the brink of impact. Sometimes I have been really grazed by that train.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

97. “Everything was handed to me – looks, fame, wealth, honour, love. I rarely had to fight for anything.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

98. “She was a tall woman with big bones and a noble face, dark eyebrows and a neatly folded jowl. She would have made a distinguished-looking man and, sometimes, wearing evening dress, looked like some famous general in drag.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

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

— Elizabeth Taylor

100. “I’ve only slept with men I’ve been married to. How many women can make that claim?”

— Elizabeth Taylor