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Everything makes me nervous – except making films.

Elizabeth Taylor

The things that are important to me – being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist – are all things that were borne out of great passion.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Born Business Greatness Important Mom Passion
You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Friendship Reality Scandal
I love to be casual and comfortable, but I also love the easy glamour of wearing jewelry all the time.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Comfortable Easy Love Myself Time
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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Freedom Hate Ideas Independent Myself People Thinking Word
I don’t pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
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Home Myself Ordinary Pretend Wife
Just in case you get pneumonia or die. The dangerous bits are always the last days of shooting.
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Dangerous Day Death Last Movie Myself
I never face the day without perfume.
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Face Myself Perfume
Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.
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Dreams Idol Ourselves Spoil Thinking
If it is not to make the world better what is money for?
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Better Money World
You can’t cry on a diamond’s shoulder, and diamonds won’t keep you warm at night, but they’re sure fun when the sun shines.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Cry Diamond Fun Shine Sun Warm
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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Act Face Pain People Reality See Suffering
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.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Belief End Love Marriage Myself Thinking Woman
I do enjoy life, I really do. Especially if I wake up the next day.
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Enjoyment Life Myself Wake Up
You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Better Help World Yourself
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.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Enjoyment Mental Myself Shower Sing Stage
My mother says I didn’t open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Born Engagement Eyes Mom Myself Open

Everything makes me nervous – except making films.

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