Acting is, to me now, artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn’t be more real. Some people don’t like to look at it in the face because it’s painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done.
ELIZABETH TAYLORI 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.
More Elizabeth Taylor Quotes
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The beauty of fragrance is that it speaks to your heart and hopefully someone else’s.
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I’m not like anyone. I’m me.
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Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.
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I wear perfume even when I’m alone.
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The things that are important to me – being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist – are all things that were borne out of great passion.
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I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I’m not afraid to look behind them.
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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.
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The public library is more than a repository of books. It’s a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.
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Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
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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.
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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.
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When women stops blushing, she has lost the most powerful weapon of charm.
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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.
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Just in case you get pneumonia or die. The dangerous bits are always the last days of shooting.
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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.
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