How can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness? Elizabeth Taylor More Quotes by Elizabeth Taylor More Quotes From Elizabeth Taylor 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 acting running fun 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 Seems like we always spend the best part of our time just saying goodbye. Elizabeth Taylor just-saying seems goodbye I find vocabulary to be a great drawback. Elizabeth Taylor drawbacks vocabulary language The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy. Elizabeth Taylor drink hate people I feel like 45. I don't look bad for someone my age, with my history of illnesses and operations and all those anesthetics. When they knock you out, it gives you time to catch up on your beauty sleep. Elizabeth Taylor age sleep giving I've never had an acting lesson. I've never been given techniques. Everything I've done is invented. I just sort of found out [how to do it]. Elizabeth Taylor technique acting done Acting is, to me now, artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn't be more real. Some people don't like to look at it in the face because it's painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done. Elizabeth Taylor real suffering people My forties are the best time I have ever gone through. Elizabeth Taylor best-times forty gone When you're fat, the world is divided into two groups - people who bug you and people who leave you alone. The funny thing is, supporters and saboteurs exist in either camp. Elizabeth Taylor funny-things two people The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival. Elizabeth Taylor optimism stress survival 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 made people thinking I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet.... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short. Elizabeth Taylor voice hate want I'm not worried about dying. I consult with God, my maker. And I don't have a lot of problems to work out. I'm pretty squared anyway. Elizabeth Taylor work-out dying problem 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 horse girl animal I hate being called "Liz", because it can sound like such a hiss. Elizabeth Taylor liz hate sound I want it all quickly 'cause I don't want God to stop and think and wonder if I'm getting more than my share. Elizabeth Taylor causes want thinking On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him. Elizabeth Taylor film speak directors 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 heat rocks body When women stops blushing, she has lost the most powerful weapon of charm. Elizabeth Taylor charm powerful weapons