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.
ELIZABETH TAYLORThe most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.
More Elizabeth Taylor Quotes
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I’ve only slept with men I’ve been married to. How many women can make that claim?
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I have a woman’s body and a child’s emotions.
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Now is the time for guts and guile.
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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.
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I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things.
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I don’t have a set pattern. I take things as they come. Usually with a great amount of relish. I just lay back and wait for it to happen. And it usually does.
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I haven’t read any of the autobiographies about me.
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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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You can’t choose between right and wrong by taking a census.
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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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When people say, ‘She’s got everything’, I’ve got one answer – I haven’t had tomorrow.
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Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
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I 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.
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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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It’s amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don’t want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.
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