"Everything makes me nervous - except making films." - Elizabeth Taylor
"I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it." - Elizabeth Taylor
"I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times." - Elizabeth Taylor
"I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife." - Elizabeth Taylor
"I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids." - Elizabeth Taylor
"I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them." - Elizabeth Taylor
"I fell off my pink cloud with a thud." - Elizabeth Taylor
"I have a woman's body and a child's emotions." - Elizabeth Taylor
"I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me." - Elizabeth Taylor
"I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on." - Elizabeth Taylor
"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." - Elizabeth Taylor
"I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes." - Elizabeth Taylor
"I think I'm finally growing up - and about time." - Elizabeth Taylor
"I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive." - Elizabeth Taylor
"I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage." - Elizabeth Taylor
"I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?" - Elizabeth Taylor
"If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down." - Elizabeth Taylor
"It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance." - Elizabeth Taylor
"It's not the having, it's the getting." - Elizabeth Taylor
"Marriage is a great institution." - Elizabeth Taylor
"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
"People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz." - Elizabeth Taylor
"Richard [Burton] is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense." - Elizabeth Taylor
"So much to do, so little done, such things to be." - Elizabeth Taylor
"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses." - Elizabeth Taylor
"Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells." - Elizabeth Taylor
"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." - Elizabeth Taylor
"You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal." - Elizabeth Taylor