92+ Best Elizabeth Taylor Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor DBE was a British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian. She was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. Profoundly inspirational Elizabeth Taylor quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.

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Famous Elizabeth Taylor Quotes

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

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. Elizabeth Taylor

Marriage is a great institution. Elizabeth Taylor

Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together. Elizabeth Taylor

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

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. Elizabeth Taylor

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

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. Elizabeth Taylor

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud. Elizabeth Taylor

Big girls need big diamonds. Elizabeth Taylor

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

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

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

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

It’s not the having, it’s the getting. Elizabeth Taylor

Success is a great deodorant. Elizabeth Taylor

I’ve been through it all, baby, I’m mother courage. Elizabeth Taylor

When people say She’s got everything. I’ve only one answer I haven’t had tomorrow. Elizabeth Taylor

I’m a survivor a living example of what people can go through and survive. Elizabeth Taylor

I’ve only slept with the men I’ve been married to. How many women can make that claim? Elizabeth Taylor

I’ve always admitted that I’m ruled by my passions. Elizabeth Taylor

I’m a survivor a living example of what people can go through and survive. Elizabeth Taylor

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

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

When people say, She’s got everything, I’ve got one answer I haven’t had tomorrow. Elizabeth Taylor

I’ve been pronounced dead and I’ve read my own obituaries. And they were the best reviews I ever read. Elizabeth Taylor

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

Since I was a little girl, I believed I was a child of destiny, and if that is true, Richard Burton was surely my fate. Elizabeth Taylor

Everything makes me nervous  except making films. Elizabeth Taylor

I’ve always admitted that I’m ruled by my passions. Elizabeth Taylor

I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes. Elizabeth Taylor

I don’t have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit. Elizabeth Taylor

Big girls need big diamonds. Elizabeth Taylor

It’s all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another. Elizabeth Taylor

Success is a great deodorant. Elizabeth Taylor

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

So much to do, so little done, such things to be. Elizabeth Taylor

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

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

Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together. Elizabeth Taylor

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

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. Elizabeth Taylor

I’ve only slept with men I’ve been married to. How many women can make that claim? Elizabeth Taylor

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. Elizabeth Taylor

I don’t pretend to be an ordinary housewife. Elizabeth Taylor

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. Elizabeth Taylor

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

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

I have a woman’s body and a child’s emotions. Elizabeth Taylor

I think I’m finally growing up  and about time. Elizabeth Taylor

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

I haven’t read any of the autobiographies about me. Elizabeth Taylor

When I’m not with the one I love, I love the one I’m with. Elizabeth Taylor

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

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

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

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

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

I’m not afraid. Life is just such an adventure to me. Elizabeth Taylor

Success is the best deodorant. Elizabeth Taylor

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

It’s all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another. Elizabeth Taylor

Why shouldn’t gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else? What it comes down to, ultimately, is love. How can anything bad come out of love? The bad stuff comes out of mistrust, misunderstanding and, God knows, from hate and from ignorance. Elizabeth Taylor

When people say, She’s got everything, I’ve got one answer I haven’t had tomorrow. Elizabeth Taylor

You can’t choose between right and wrong by taking a census. Elizabeth Taylor

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

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

Now is the time for guts and guile. Elizabeth Taylor

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

Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together. Elizabeth Taylor

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. Elizabeth Taylor

Those against gay marriages say marriage should only be between a man and a woman. God. I of all people know that that doesn’t always work! Elizabeth Taylor

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. Elizabeth Taylor

It’s not the having, it’s the getting. Elizabeth Taylor

Everything makes me nervous except making films. Elizabeth Taylor

I’m a survivor a living example of what people can go through and survive. Elizabeth Taylor

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

So much to do, so little done, such things to be. Elizabeth Taylor

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

I’ve been through it all, baby, I’m mother courage. Elizabeth Taylor

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

I think I’m finally growing up and about time. Elizabeth Taylor

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

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

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

I’ve always admitted that I’m ruled by my passions. Elizabeth Taylor

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. Elizabeth Taylor

How can anything bad come out of love? The bad stuff comes out of mistrust, misunderstanding and God knows from hate and from ignorance. Elizabeth Taylor

Big girls need big diamonds. Elizabeth Taylor

Everything makes me nervous  except making films. Elizabeth Taylor