Quotes by Elizabeth Taylor

“People want things to be complicated, but they have to love themselves first and then each other and then it will seed everywhere”

“Perhaps I was hosting my own personal sexual revolution. You know the kind that will not be televised.”

“Creatively Outspoken and Dramatically Quiet”

“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.”

“I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.”

“I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.”

“It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”

“I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.”

“Everything makes me nervous - except making films.”

“Marriage is a great institution.”

“You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.”

“It's not the having, it's the getting.”

“Success is a great deodorant.”

“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.”

“I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.”

“If love is a battlefield and we all get scars....These were my remindersmy necessary thorns.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened and I'm not afraid to look behind them.”

“When people say: she's got everything I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.”