Elizabeth Taylor

"I'm the same as a key piece of machinery in a steel mill, which is needed to make steel and to make money for the mill owners. If I break down, it's their problem. My problem is to build some kind of decent life for myself in this crazy unreal world in which I make my living."

"I've been married too many times. How terrible to change children's affiliations, their affections — to give them the insecurity of placing their trust in someone when maybe that someone won't be there next year."

"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."

"My 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."

"I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions."

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

"There is no deodorant like success."

"I was with her one Easter in France or Africa and all the animals on the set tried to get into her lap."

"Really nice girl. I dated her only once."

"See what happens? One date with me and Liz ends up engaged to a millionaire."

"Elizabeth Taylor should get a divorce and settle down."

"There are three things I never saw Elizabeth do: be on time, tell a lie, be unkind to anyone at all."

"I 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…"