I don’t like my voice. I don’t like the way I look. I don’t like the way I move. I don’t like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don’t like myself.
ELIZABETH TAYLORIt’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.
More Elizabeth Taylor Quotes
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It’s all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.
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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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I’ve been through it all, baby, I’m mother courage.
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I think I’m finally growing up – and about time.
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When I’m not with the one I love, I love the one I’m with.
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I wear perfume even when I’m alone.
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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 are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.
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I don’t love acting; I love chocolate.
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I’ve always sung in the shower. Now I make the stage a mental shower in order not to get too uptight and enjoy it.
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I would totally lose myself in the music and be a gypsy. I would go wherever I wanted to in my head – wherever the music took me. My body followed.
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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.
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When women stops blushing, she has lost the most powerful weapon of charm.
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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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Put on some lipstick and pull yourself together.
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I don’t pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
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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 never face the day without perfume.
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Money is the best deodorant.
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Everything makes me nervous – except making films.
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I will love Michael Jackson forever.
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It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
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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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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.
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I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can’t possess radiance, you can only admire it.
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I don’t have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit.
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