Elizabeth Taylor Quotes - Page 6

My forties are the best time I have ever gone through.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Success is a great deodorant.

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.

[On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence.

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.

I find it rather tedious working with some actors who have to go into a corner and bounce up and down, shake their hands and arms, saying to the director, "Just a second - I'll be ready in a few minutes, " while all the other actors are waiting around to get in. Then they say, "OK! I'm ready now." And then they come on and do it exactly the same way they've done it in rehearsal.

Oh, I love red. I'm very loyal to my colors. I love violet.

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

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

Something always made me save myself. Either the Betty Ford Center or going onstage to perform in the theater when many people didn't think I could do it.

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

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."

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.

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.

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

On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him.

I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.

A "name" no longer carries a film. People used to go to the cinema to see a "John Wayne film." And you don't have that thing happening now except in the rock world, which has taken the event out of movies.

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.