Quotes from 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.

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

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

Money is the best deodorant.

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

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

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

I want it all quickly 'cause I don't want God to stop and think and wonder if I'm getting more than my share.

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

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

I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.

Thanks Darling for the beautiful flowers and all the prayers. Now can you just get my puppy past security?

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

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.

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

Now is the time for guts and guile

You might as well live

the problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure there going to have some pretty annoying virtues

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

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.

When the sun comes up, I have morals again.

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.