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 TAYLORI 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.
More Elizabeth Taylor Quotes
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I’m not afraid. Life is just such an adventure to me.
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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 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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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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Marriage is a great institution.
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When I’m not with the one I love, I love the one I’m with.
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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 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 think I ended up being the scarlet woman partly because of my rather puritannical upbringing and beliefs. I always chose to think I was in love and that love was synonymous with marriage.
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I’ve been through it all, baby, I’m mother courage.
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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 don’t have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit.
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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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Now is the time for guts and guile.
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I have a woman’s body and a child’s emotions.
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