Liz Taylor movie quotes

“The first day I saw Richard Burton on the 'Cleopatra' set, there was a lot of hemming and hawing and he said hello to Joe Mankiewicz and everyone. And then he sort of sidled over to me and said 'Has anybody ever told you that you're a very pretty girl?'. And I said to myself, Oh gevaldt, here's the great lover, the great wit, the great...” (continue)(continue reading)
Liz Taylor

“- Lola Brewster: You seem lovely, as always. Of course, there are fewer lights on than usual. In fact, any fewer, and I'd need a seeing-eye dog.
- Marina Rudd: Oh, I shouldn't bother to buy one, dear. In that wig, you could play Lassie.
- Lola Brewster: Same adorable sense of humor. And I'm so glad to see that you've not only kept your gorgeous...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kim Novak - Lola Brewster
Liz Taylor - Marina Rudd

“The trouble is not getting the man that you want. The trouble is wanting the man once you get him!
[After her 7th marriage].”
Liz Taylor

“Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.”
Liz Taylor

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

“I've only slept with the men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?”
Liz Taylor

“If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I am certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.”
Liz Taylor

“Big girlsneed big diamonds.”
Liz Taylor

“- Apollodorus: I've always loved you.
- Cleopatra: And I have always known.”
Cesare Danova - Apollodorus
Liz Taylor - Cleopatra

“There are never enough hours in the days of a queen, and her nights have too many.”
Liz Taylor - Cleopatra

“How dare you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library! Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar! Rape, murder, pillage thousands, even millions of human beings! But neither you nor any other barbarian has the right to destroy one human thought!”
Liz Taylor - Cleopatra

“Oh, you poor, poor dear. You could have married Elliot Firestone, the man who invented the wheel. Instead you picked Fred Flintstone, the man who invented the excuse!”

Liz Taylor - Pearl Slaghoople

“What are you supposed to be, a birthday cake? Too bad everybody's had a piece.”

Liz Taylor - Marina Rudd

“When I was young, MGM was a very exciting place to be. I've always loved movie stars, loved movies, loved everything about them except doing them. It was so tremendously thrilling to go into the commissary for lunch. They were all there - Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr. And there was the lovely, sweet smell of the puncake...” (continue)(continue reading)
Liz Taylor On Clark Gable

“Take out all the homosexuals and there is no Hollywood.”
Liz Taylor

“I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.”
Liz Taylor

“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoyingvirtues.”
Liz Taylor

“When the sun comes up, I have morals again.”
Liz Taylor

“Success is a great deodorant.”
Liz 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.”
Liz Taylor

“- Lola Brewster: I couldn't wait to begin our little movie. You know the saying: once an actress, always an actress.
- Marina Rudd: Oh, I do know the saying. But what does it have to do with you?
- Lola Brewster: Cute angel. So do tell. How does it feel to be back, after being away so long?”
Kim Novak - Lola Brewster
Liz Taylor - Marina Rudd

“- Wilma Flintstone: You two should be ashamed of yourselves!
- Pearl Slaghoople: I got my hands full just being ashamed of him.
- Fred Flintstone: You got your hands full when you scratch your neck!”

Elizabeth Perkins - Wilma Flintstone
Liz Taylor - Pearl Slaghoople
John Goodman - Fred Flintstone

“- Marina Rudd: Lola, dear, you know, there are really only two things I dislike about you.
- Lola Brewster: Really? What are they?
- Marina Rudd: Your face.”
Liz Taylor - Marina Rudd
Kim Novak - Lola Brewster