Elizabeth Taylor Quotes (1932-2011)

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About Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor (27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011) was an American English-born Academy Award winning actress.

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β€œThere is no deodorant like success.”
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β€œI've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.”
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β€œYou find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.”
β€œThe problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
β€œMy heart…my mind… are broken. I loved Michael with all my soul and I can't imagine life without him. We had so much in common and we had such loving fun together.”

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Elizabeth Taylor on Diamond

β€œBig girls need big diamonds.”
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Elizabeth Taylor on Vices

β€œThe 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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Elizabeth Taylor on Virtue

β€œThe 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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Elizabeth Taylor on Richard J. Daley

β€œI'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.”
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Elizabeth Taylor on Kathy Ireland

β€œI have never seen anyone epitomize glamour and grace and professionalism like she did.”
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Elizabeth Taylor on Clark Gable

β€œIf only Mr. Gable had stayed a little longer. Everything else was such an anticlimax after he left.”
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Elizabeth Taylor on Michael Jackson

β€œMy heart…my mind… are broken. I loved Michael with all my soul and I can't imagine life without him. We had so much in common and we had such loving fun together. I still can't believe it. I don't want to believe it. It can't be so. He will live in my heart forever but it’s not enough. My life feels so empty. I don't think anyone knew how much we loved each other. The purest most giving love I've ever known. Oh God! I'm going to miss him. I can’t yet imagine life without him. But I guess with God’s help... I'll learn. I keep looking at the photo he gave me of himself, which says, 'To my true love Elizabeth, I love you forever.' And, I will love HIM forever.”
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Lillian Gish on Elizabeth Taylor

β€œI was with her one Easter in France or Africa and all the animals on the set tried to get into her lap.”
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Ralph Kiner on Elizabeth Taylor 2 quotes

β€œReally nice girl. I dated her only once.”
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Oscar Levant on Elizabeth Taylor

β€œElizabeth Taylor should get a divorce and settle down.”
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Mike Nichols on Elizabeth Taylor

β€œThere are three things I never saw Elizabeth do: be on time, tell a lie, be unkind to anyone at all.”

Ellen Willis on Elizabeth Taylor

β€œI was less pleased than [my friend] to read Elizabeth Taylor's announcement that she had joined the ranks of the sober. Liz Taylor, whom I'd always cherished as one of the few famous women to barrel down the road of excess with a vengeance-eating, drinking, swearing, fucking, marrying, acquiring diamonds as big as the Ritz…”
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About Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor (27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011) was an American English-born Academy Award winning actress.