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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17. -- Francesca Annis
Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing. -- Joe Jonas
Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds. -- Joan Rivers
He's not very fast, but maybe Elizabeth Taylor can't sing. -- Darrell Royal
Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory. -- Joan Rivers
The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra. -- Leslie Caron
Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her. -- Michael Jackson
My friends are very rich. Elizabeth Taylor sends flowers the size of the bathtub. I'm not kidding. -- Charles Nelson Reilly
Elizabeth Taylor has reinvented herself and her image time and time again. The results have often helped redefine modern fashion. -- Bo Derek
Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap. -- Don Rickles
J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday. -- Steven Cojocaru
My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period. -- Dennis Christopher
I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well. -- Lindsay Lohan
You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities. -- Francesca Annis
Elizabeth Taylor was an incurable romantic at heart. She never gave up on the notion that a love strong enough to last a lifetime was waiting for her around the next corner. -- Teresa Medeiros
The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of that; she was the ultimate celebrity of excess and glamour, and she worked major sun hats. -- Philip Treacy
I've always been fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor, and I had read that her first kiss happened on a film set, which actually made me a little sad. You need to have normal experiences of your own. -- Emma Watson
I've had the good fortune of working with some amazing people. I mean, my first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period. -- Dennis Christopher
The problem is you bring up the name Elizabeth Taylor, people think of jewelry; they think of husbands; the 'la dolce vita' lifestyle. I'm happy to have gotten to know her when I got to know her. -- Firooz Zahedi
Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind of obsessed with 'Jersey Shore.' People don't give them enough credit for how entertaining they are. -- Margaret Cho
When I was a kid I used to go to the movies, double features in outdoor theaters, and my parents used to take us to see like, 'Cat On a Hot Tin Roof' or something like that, with Elizabeth Taylor. -- Michael Biehn
Elizabeth Taylor was the first star for whom an offscreen narrative was equally as important as an onscreen one. Her private life became as much of a driving force of her fame and success as any role she played in the movies. -- William J. Mann
Elizabeth Taylor taught me that if you do your hair and makeup first then take a hot bath right before you leave, it brings out your inner glow and takes away the powdery look from makeup. I do that right before every date. -- Jennifer Love Hewitt
I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts. -- Jacki Weaver
I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer. -- Christian Louboutin
My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, 'I'm Dhirubhai Ambani... may I talk to Nita?' I said, 'It's a wrong number' and put down the phone. Then he called again... and I said, 'If you're Dhirubhai Ambani, then I'm Elizabeth Taylor.' -- Nita Ambani
Elizabeth Taylor's so fat she puts mayonnaise on aspirin. -- Joan Rivers
Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders. -- Francesca Annis
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Playing Elizabeth Taylor was probably the hardest job I've ever done. -- Sherilyn Fenn
A gift to mankind; the next Elizabeth Taylor in the making -- Isaac Mizrahi
Sugar Ray Leonard's retirements last about as long as Elizabeth Taylor's marriages. -- Bob Arum
I've waited all my life to say this... I weigh less than Elizabeth Taylor! -- Totie Fields
You know, Elizabeth Taylor must be in Heaven going, 'Alright, fire two honey!' -- Dana Carvey
Elizabeth Taylor was never told what to wear or paid to carry a certain handbag, -- Daphne Guinness
It wouldn't be bad to look like a cross between Rita Hayworth and Elizabeth Taylor. -- Yasmine Bleeth
I've come close to death more times than Elizabeth Taylor has said 'I do.' -- Mireya Mayor
Elizabeth Taylor was so fat that whenever she went to London in a red dress, 30 passengers would try to board her. -- Joan Rivers
Elizabeth Taylor has a big heart. She recently built a halfway house for girls who don't want to go all the way. -- Red Buttons
For me, poetry is the colour of Elizabeth Taylor's eyes, or the pauses in Pinter's plays - only the pauses, not the words. -- Roger Lewis
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All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton. -- Tracy Letts
You can imagine what a trip this is for a Jewish girl from Great Neck-I get to win an Academy Award and meet Elizabeth Taylor at the same time. -- Julia Phillips
Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown. -- Tony Benn
There are no more Elizabeth Taylors. You could be fascinated by her, she lived so many lives, she lived far, she loved the jewels; she had gaudy taste but she had extraordinary talent. -- Andre Leon Talley
If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before. I mean, I produced a Frank Sinatra special-- Elizabeth Taylor, with Michael Jackson, Gregory Peck, I won't even take a picture. -- David Gest
Great movie stars like Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor who were capable of saying so much without saying anything at all merely by carrying themselves in a classic fashion that's timeless yet relatable. -- Lily Collins
I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But when I see myself on the screen I say: 'Oh shoot! What are they talking about?' -- Farrah Fawcett
The women I liked when I was growing up, as a little boy, were Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, because they had these curvaceous figures, and they were erotic to me. -- John Travolta
When Ava Gardner get in a taxi, the driver knows at once she's Ava Gardner. It's the same for Lana Turner or Elizabeth Taylor, but not for me. I'm never Grace Kelly, I'm always someone who looks like Grace Kelly. -- Grace Kelly
Today Washington is our Hollywood, the Senate our Warner Bros., the White House our Beverly Hills. People who never read a line of a movie magazine deal with the lives of leaders as if they were Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. -- Ellen Goodman
Elizabeth Taylor is one of the great cultural icons. She is a part of our history and should be celebrated."¦ This presentation is very special for the community, there are so many people who want to understand this side of Elizabeth Taylor. -- Jeffrey Deitch
Everybody says I can't act. They said the same thing about Elizabeth Taylor. And they were wrong. She was great in A Place in the Sun. I'll never get the right part, anything I really want. My looks are against me. They're too specific. -- Marilyn Monroe
There's something I call telegenekicity, and it's not about just models. Of course, I can reference Iman, Tatiana Patitz, Kelly Emberg, Bonnie Berman - I go all the way back - but I think that you develop an eye to register iconic images - like Greta Garbo and Elizabeth Taylor. -- Michael Flutie
If you stop and think about who was in the 'Lassie' movies, it's difficult to think who was in them, apart from Elizabeth Taylor. You remember the dog, not the people! So if you're going to be in a movie, and it's called 'Gremlins', it's going to be about Gremlins, and what people are going to remember are the Gremlins. -- Zach Galligan
I remember reading this thing that Elizabeth Taylor wrote. She had her first kiss in character. On a movie set. It really struck me. I don't know how or why, but I had this sense that if I wasn't really careful, that could be me: that my first kiss could be in somebody else's clothes. And my experiences could all belong to someone else. -- Emma Watson
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
Elizabeth Anne Taylor April 25, 1974 - April 25, 2004 Our Sweetheart, Only resting -- MaryJanice Davidson
When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first spent a block of time with him. -- Carrie Fisher

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