Liz Taylor's Five Best Screen Lines

"Get the door you simp!"

From "Reflections in a Golden Eye," with that magnificent Southern accent:

"Have you ever been dragged into the street and flogged by a naked woman?"

"She cut off her nipples with garden shears! Can you imagine? Garden shears!"

Terrific thread! For all the quotes from "Virginia Woolf," yes, Taylor made them great, but let's remember that Edward Albee made them. Bravo to both!

"You see George didn't have much push. He wasn't particularly aggressive. In fact, he was sort of a flop. A great big fat FLOP..... I hope that was an empty bottle, George -- you can't afford to waste good liquor. Not on your salary. Not on an associate professor's salary".

I always liked..." You kill me...thats a laugh"...my god that Martha..what a woman.

Okay, I will cheat here and say her most memorable line was a television ad for her White Diamonds perfume, where she says, "These have always brought me luck," and hands the man one of her diamond earrings.

Runner-up: "Parrrrrrrrrrrrrrty! Oh, get the door, George!"

Why doesn't anyone remember "Hammersmith Is Out"?...

Hey Mr. Musto, thanks for all of these Elizabeth Taylor posts. I love them. The first Taylor movie I saw, believe it or not, was 'Secret Ceremony' with Mia Farrow. It was on a vhs tape with no markings, so to me it was a total surprise. I thought it was gonna be porn, but it ended up even better! I remember thinking, "Wow! That lady IS a movie star!" She said something in that movie that I still think about- talking about a dress or something, she says- "That's too drab for a Spring day-- that should be worn on a day when it rains like piss!" I'm sure you can imagine her delivery. And even now, when it's raining hard, I wonder, "Is this what Elizabeth Taylor meant when she talked about it raining like piss?" She touched us all in so many different ways, obviously.

'Cause they've got no necks." Her to the point response when Brick responds to her question about why she calls them no neck monsters.... Her 'Maggie the Cat' will forever be the standard for all Maggies that come after her.

I thought the "no-neck monsters" hit her with a hot buttered biscuit, no?

I don't remember the exact line, but when she introduced a segment in "That's Enetertainment," discussing her early career, sounding exhausted she manages: "M - inhale - G - inhale - M." Indelible.

God she was great for countless reasons! All hail Dame Elizabeth!

"What....a DUMP-pah!"

Tell momma. Tell momma all.

Hey, swampy!

R.I.P. Queen Elizabeth.

Shirley MacLaine knew that her chances of winning an Oscar for "The Apartment" were nixed because a very sick Taylor would get a sympathy vote. She said "When Elizabeth Taylor got a hole in her throat, I canceled my plane."

ANTONYYYYYYYY !!!!!!

"Not on an associate professor's salary, George.

She was talking to a group of people, including Princess Margaret, and wearing the huge diamond engagement ring that Richard Burton had given her. She noticed that Margaret's eyes were wide-eyed fixated on the ring, and whenever Taylor moved her hand the Royal eyes followed it. Finally Princess Margaret said "That is the most vulgar ring I have ever seen."

"She buys things!"

"Injection!!!!!!" From Boom!

It's not from a movie. But it's my favorite quote of hers:

"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."

Every word out of her mouth in Butterfield 8, Cat, and Cleopatra!!

"Maggie the cat is alive!!! I'm alive!!!"

"Sebastian only needed you while you were still useful. Able to attract!" From Suddenly Last Summer telling Kate Hepburn that her son ditched Kate because she couldn't get hot studs to come sniffing around so he could have them. A lot of the movie's best lines were Kate's. Like "What are most people's lives but trails of debris? Every day, more debris and nothing to clean it all up in the end except death." Tennessee Williams thought of a lot of great things for his gals to say.