Top 180 Elizabeth Taylor Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I’ve been married too many times. How terrible to change children’s affiliations, their affections – to give them the insecurity of placing their trust in someone when maybe that someone won’t be there next year.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

102. “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.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

103. “I will love Michael Jackson forever.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

104. “It was hard work being old. It was like being a baby, in reverse. Every day for an infant means some new little thing learned; every day for the old means some little thing lost. Names slip away, dates mean nothing, sequences become muddled, and faces blurred. Both infancy and age are tiring times.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

105. “I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

106. “I never tried to act until A Place in the Sun.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

107. “I’ve come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our particular species.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

108. “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.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

109. “I’m not worried about dying. I consult with God, my maker. And I don’t have a lot of problems to work out. I’m pretty squared anyway.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

110. “When you’re older, you’ll appreciate the advantages of sleeping alone.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

111. “I really don’t remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

112. “Marriage is a great institution.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

113. “The whole point is that writing has a pattern and life hasn’t. Life is so untidy. Art is so short and life so long. It is not possible to have perfection in life but it is possible to have perfection in a novel.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

114. “All I see in the mirror every morning is a face that needs washing.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

115. “I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

116. “I use my fame now when I want to help a cause or other people.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

117. “If you hate it, if you find you have made a mistake, it will still have been a change. As with a holiday, if it ends in your wishing to come home, its aim is accomplished.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

118. “She had about her a strong smell of hair-spray and her lunch-time whisky.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

119. “I’m not afraid. Life is just such an adventure to me.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

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

— Elizabeth Taylor

121. “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.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

122. “I’ve been pronounced dead and I’ve read my own obituaries. And they were the best reviews I ever read.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

123. “One is left so much on one’s own. People are shy of the bereaved. They don’t quite know what to be.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

124. “Clark Gable was the epitome of the movie star – so romantic, such bearing, such friendliness.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

125. “I hate being called “Liz”, because it can sound like such a hiss.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

126. “No matter what happens, I’m loud, noisy, earthy and ready for much more living.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

127. “All that she saw and felt tired her, and she longed to shut out the world and be secure in the womb of her imagination.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

128. “The disaster of being old was in not feeling safe to venture anywhere, of seeing freedom put out of reach.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

129. “Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

130. “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.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

131. “Just in case you get pneumonia or die. The dangerous bits are always the last days of shooting.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

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

— Elizabeth Taylor

133. “Seeing one face continually in crowds is one of the minor annoyances of being in love.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

134. “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?”

— Elizabeth Taylor

135. “On the film where I didn’t get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

136. “But so little does the rest of the world seem to care if we act nobly or otherwise that no help came to her.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

137. “Time went by. It could be proved that it did, although so little happened.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

138. “They Weren’t Allowed to Die There.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

139. “The rain hit the windows like rice; the fire roared hollowly; the autumn afternoon discoloured into darkness.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

140. “People are different in different places,′ he thought hazily. ‘And if they’re all right in one place, it’s best to leave them there.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

141. “I always wanted to have a fragrance, and I always wanted to be able to connect with people in ways other than through film.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

142. “People are sorry for brides who lose their husbands early, from some accident, or war. And they should be sorry, Mrs Palfrey thought. But the other thing is worse.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

143. “On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

144. “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.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

145. “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.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

146. “I’m just an instinctive actress, I’ve never had a lesson in my life.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

147. “The things that are important to me – being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist – are all things that were borne out of great passion.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

148. “I’ve always sung in the shower. Now I make the stage a mental shower in order not to get too uptight and enjoy it.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

149. “Men are not forced to turn their desolation to advantage as women are. It’s easier for them to dissipate their passion, quell their restlessness in other ways.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

150. “Everything makes me nervous – except making films.”

— Elizabeth Taylor