Everything makes me nervous – except making films.
ELIZABETH TAYLORSo much is said with the electricity of the eyes, the intensity of a whisper. Less is more.
More Elizabeth Taylor Quotes
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I have a woman’s body and a child’s emotions.
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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 am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too – for being married so many times.
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I don’t pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
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Marriage is a great institution.
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Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
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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.
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A belly laugh increases the ability of your immune system to fight infections.
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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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I’ve never thought of my jewelry as trophies. I’m here to take care of it and to love it, for we are only temporary custodians of beauty.
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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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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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Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.
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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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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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