Elizabeth Taylor quotes:

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Big girls need big diamonds.

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

Originally, we were going to set up a cappuccino bar in the showroom, but we've been so busy, ... We decided when we're old and grey, we're going to set up a coffee shop, and we formed the company about 18 months ago when we thought of the name. It's going to be TLC - Tastes Like Chocolate.

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."

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.

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

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.

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

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

I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off.

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

Marriage is a great institution.

Success is a great deodorant.

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.

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

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

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.

Money is the best deodorant.

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

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

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.

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!

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

The beauty of fragrance is that it speaks to your heart and hopefully someone else's.

Clark Gable was the epitome of the movie star - so romantic, such bearing, such friendliness.

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.

Now is the time for guts and guile,

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 don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive.

You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way.

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

My favorite name for a color is "puce." It's kind of a dried blood color. It's a hideous color. But I love the word. It's so euphonic. But my favorite colors are lavender, purple, periwinkle blue, and white.

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?

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

Put on some lipstick and pull yourself together.

What is a genius? What is a living legend? What is a megastar? Michael Jackson -- that's all. And when you think you know him, he gives you more. I think he is one of the finest people to hit this planet, and, in my estimation, he is the true King of Pop, Rock and Soul.

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

I don't love acting; I love chocolate.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

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.

The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.

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.

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

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

The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.

Big girls need big diamonds

For all civilisations are like elaborate campings-out, a complicated picnic in the face of nature's discomforts.

I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.

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

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.

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride.

Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense." (on Richard Burton)

When you're older, you'll appreciate the advantages of sleeping alone.

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

Look, sweetheart, I can drink you under any goddamn table you want, so don't worry about me.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

You can't choose between right and wrong by taking a census.

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

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

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 was so strictly brought up that the only time I could get away would be on my own pony. I could ride wherever I wanted on my godfather's estate in Kent.I wasn't brought up to be afraid of anything.

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'm not like anyone. I'm me.

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

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

When I hear the name Michael Jackson, I think of brilliance, of dazzling stars, lasers and deep emotions. I think he is one of the world's biggest and greatest stars, and it just so happens that he is one of the most gifted music makers the world has ever known. I think he is one of the finest people to hit this planet, and, in my estimation, he is the true King of Pop, Rock, and Soul. I love you Michael.

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.

I'm not afraid. Life is just such an adventure to me.

Give. Remember always to give. That is the one thing that will make you grow.

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.

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

When I'm not with the one I love, I love the one I'm with.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm loud and I'm vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody's got to, but I am not a monster. I'm not.

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

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

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

There has never been such a silence.

When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.

If it is not to make the world better what is money for?

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

You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.

I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously

I never face the day without perfume.

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

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 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.

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.

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.

You can be fat and still be sexy . It all depends on how you feel about yourself

I will love Michael Jackson forever.

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

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.

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

No matter what happens, I'm loud, noisy, earthy and ready for much more living.

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

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.

There's no deodorant like success.