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Elizabeth Taylor
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“[On her marriages:] What do you expect me to do? Sleep alone?”
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“... there is no deodorant like success.”
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“[On why she doesn't fish:] I suppose that I'm too softhearted. After all, fish have mothers.”
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“I think I ended up being the scarlet woman partly because of my rather puritannical upbringing and beliefs. I always chose to think I was in love and that love was synonymous with marriage.”
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“Without homosexuals there'd be no Hollywood.”
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“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.”
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“[On her role as Cleopatra:] 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.”
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“It's not the having, it's the getting.”
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“I've only slept with the men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?”
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“Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.”
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“I believe in the difference between men and women. In fact, I embrace the difference.”
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“I, along with the critics, have never taken myself seriously.”
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“Any home where there is love constitutes a family and all families should have the same legal rights, including the right to marry and have or adopt children. Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else?”
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“I do enjoy life, I really do. Especially if I wake up the next day.”
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“I don't love acting; I love chocolate.”
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“My forties are the best time I have ever gone through.”
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“When people say: she's got everything, I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.”
Elizabeth Taylor, English-born U.S. actor
(1932 - 2011)
Full name: Dame Elizabeth Rosemond “Liz” Taylor.