Latest Elizabeth Taylor Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm not afraid. Life is just such an adventure to me.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Adventure, Life Is, Not Afraid

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

• I love going to rock concerts, I love to lose myself in that vast wave of rhythm and body heat and get on the same vibe.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Rocks, Body, Heat

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

• A "name" no longer carries a film. People used to go to the cinema to see a "John Wayne film." And you don't have that thing happening now except in the rock world, which has taken the event out of movies.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Taken, Names, Rocks

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

• Something always made me save myself. Either the Betty Ford Center or going onstage to perform in the theater when many people didn't think I could do it.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Thinking, People, Made

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

• I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Drinking, Thinking, Quality

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

• You can always avert throwing yourself in front of an oncoming train. There is something that just pulls you away - and it has pulled me away, because I'm not dead yet - just at the brink of impact. Sometimes I have been really grazed by that train.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Impact, Sometimes, Throwing

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

• I've always preferred animals to little girls or boys. I had my first horse - actually it was a Newfoundland pony - when I was three, and I loved riding, without anyone shackling me - riding bareback as fast as I could.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Girl, Horse, Animal

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

• My favorite name for a color is "puce." It's kind of a dried blood color. It's a hideous color. But I love the word. It's so euphonic. But my favorite colors are lavender, purple, periwinkle blue, and white.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Names, Purple, White

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I find it rather tedious working with some actors who have to go into a corner and bounce up and down, shake their hands and arms, saying to the director, "Just a second - I'll be ready in a few minutes, " while all the other actors are waiting around to get in. Then they say, "OK! I'm ready now." And then they come on and do it exactly the same way they've done it in rehearsal.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Hands, Waiting Around, Rehearsal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't have a set pattern. I take things as they come. Usually with a great amount of relish. I just lay back and wait for it to happen. And it usually does.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Waiting, Doe, Patterns

  Source: articles.latimes.com

• A strong film director does leave you to your devices. A strong director allows you to be free and you trust that he's there and he will tell you if you've gone too far. A strong director allows you to be much more experimental and take greater chances than a director who isn't secure within himself.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Strong, Directors, Doe

  Source: articles.latimes.com

• Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Dream, Thinking, Idols

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• Fragrance is an incredibly intimate thing. It can evoke very specific thoughts or memories and is a little different for each person who wears it. I also think it's the most accessible luxury.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Memories, Thinking, Luxury

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I like the connection with fans and people who have been supportive of me. And I love the idea of real feedback and a two-way street, which is very, very modern.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Real, Ideas, Two

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I always wanted to have a fragrance, and I always wanted to be able to connect with people in ways other than through film.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  People, Able, Way

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I love to be casual and comfortable, but I also love the easy glamour of wearing jewelry all the time.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Jewelry, Easy, Glamour

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I have never wanted to be a queen! Cleopatra was a role, and I am an actor, so it was fun to play one, but it's not real.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Queens, Fun, Real

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• 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

  Mother, Passion, Important

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have watched a great artist perform, and never richer than when I have scored a big check to fight AIDS.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Children, Fighting, Artist

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Beautiful, Great Love, Lucky

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands. For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Husband, Jewels, Doe

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• 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.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Hate, Independent, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the director says, "Action!" Then you snap your mind into shape and into the character that you're playing and relate to the people that you're acting with and forget everybody else that you've been joking with.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Character, Laughing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Acting is fun. It's not my whole life. It's not my entire being. It's secondary to my life. My life is primary. I'm running in the primary, as you know.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Running, Fun, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Order, Uptight, Stage

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com