Best Elizabeth Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I worked starting when I was 14. I was the reservationist at the Elizabeth Howard dinner theater. They had never hired someone in high school, let alone a 14-year-old.”

“As a kid, picturing people who grew up in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I walking around in hose and latched shoes in the woods behind my house was an interesting atmospheric thing for me.”

“'Elizabeth' doesn't feel related to me at all.”

“I was obsessed with Miss Elizabeth when I was a little girl.”

“I think I am the Elizabeth Barrett of 2015. Not in terms of genius but in bed a lot.”

“I love Elizabeth Hurley. I have met her on a few occasions and was stunned by her beauty and her attitude. Very cool and easy going.”

“If your husband's going to leave you for anyone, it might as well be Elizabeth Taylor.”

“I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.”

“He's not very fast, but maybe Elizabeth Taylor can't sing.”

“You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.”

“There are no more Elizabeth Taylors. You could be fascinated by her, she lived so many lives, she lived far, she loved the jewels; she had gaudy taste but she had extraordinary talent.”

“Was Prince Philip in love when he proposed to Elizabeth? At the time, he was a relatively penniless prince, with a rackety family and no home to call his own.”

“The people I tend to look to and reference are Hollywood icons; Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Rita Hayworth.”

“My dream mixed-tag match has always been against the 'Macho Man' Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth.”

“I was thrust, excitingly, via 'Elizabeth' and 'Shakespeare in Love,' into a position one can only dream of, but it was startling, too. I was offered a multitude of roles riding horses in flouncy shirts, and I just thought, 'Hang on, I've just done that. What next?'”

“As an Elizabeth native, I believe it is my duty to give back to my community. Our youth is our future, and it truly takes a village to raise a child.”

“If I were Elizabeth Sloane, I wouldn't be wearing makeup. I'd just be focused on getting the job done.”

“I'm absolutely an Elizabeth Taylor fan!”

“We have decided that now is the time for me to focus intently on my top priority, my family, as Elizabeth and I raise our two young children. To that end, I will not seek reelection to a third term.”

“Of course, the most important factor of all for long life is a good family. When a person goes home with the wife or the kids giving him endless headaches, then it's hard for that person to enjoy a long life. I am very fortunate, because my wife Elizabeth and my obedient children are very good; they have given me happiness.”

“Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.”

“Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .”

“I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women, who were born when the country hoped for a male heir, made their way as leaders.”

“If pushed to say what I like about Elizabeth, who, as I'm sure most of you know, overtook Queen Victoria this week to become our longest-serving monarch, it would be her uncomplaining, getting-on-with-it ethic.”

“She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.”

“Kenya has deep resonances for the royals: it was here, after all, that the young Princess Elizabeth heard of the death of her father, George VI. From that moment, she was Queen.”

“There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.”

“Growing up in America, even in the rougher parts of Elizabeth, I had two nice playgrounds to choose from as a child.”

“I've had the honor and the pleasure and gift of having known Elizabeth Taylor for a number of years. You know, you sit down with her, she slings hash, she sits there and cusses like a sailor, and she's hilarious.”

“My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.”

“I've worked with people and I've known people that were really competitive, but I've always said that I take an Elizabeth Bennett philosophy of life - I laugh. I love my job, but if it means hurting someone, I won't do it.”

“My idol when I was a kid was Elizabeth Taylor.”

“Elizabeth Moss may very well be one of the best actresses I've had the privilege of standing opposite and sharing lines with.”

“I love Mayor Pete. I've always liked Joe Biden. I like Elizabeth Warren.”

“I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.”

“Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until my youngest child went to school, and then I began - the first morning - and I've never stopped.”

“Of course I had written a film about Elizabeth I, and I loved the Tudor period, and I think at the time Working Title and I had debated on whether to do Elizabeth I or Henry VIII. I'd always wanted to do Henry VIII. Like Elizabeth, I'd had this feeling that it had never properly been addressed.”

“Stole my first name from 'Evening in Paris' and the second from Elizabeth Arden.”

“I've been surprised that 'Elizabeth is Missing' has been so well received as a crime book. I love mystery stories, and that is what I decided to write.”

“Queen Elizabeth is reserved when she meets strangers - but with friends and family she can be very witty.”

“I thought I had a handle on my priorities before Elizabeth and I lost our oldest son to stillbirth.”

“You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.”

“Kamala Harris is fumbling and she's like, 'Oh, I'm going to go after Twitter because Elizabeth Warren sucked all the oxygen out of the room.' She's standing up and saying, 'I'm going to go after Facebook, I'm going to break them up, I'm going to go after all of these big technology companies.'”

“Elizabeth Hurley rocks. She really rocks.”

“'Elizabeth' is something I've looked to a lot for a strong female leader.”

“I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.”

“Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.”

“My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, 'I'm Dhirubhai Ambani... may I talk to Nita?' I said, 'It's a wrong number' and put down the phone. Then he called again... and I said, 'If you're Dhirubhai Ambani, then I'm Elizabeth Taylor.'”

“Many have observed that Elizabeth Edwards could be a political figure in her own right. She has never had an interest in that.”

“Everyone always said, 'When you're 10, you'll want to be Elizabeth, or when you're in college.' And every time, I was was just like, 'No, I'm Beanie. That's who I am.' So I love my name because I think it really suits me.”

“Elizabeth Warren fully intends to change the system, and says so. When she said how good it felt to be with working people in a workers' hall, you knew it wasn't a platitude.”

“I'm mostly a historical romance reader, but I never miss a Susan Elizabeth Phillips book. Her characters are larger than life and heartbreakingly real at the same time. I don't know how she does it.”

“Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.”

“I've always felt a certain guilt to have them labeled as 'Christina's sisters' or, 'That's Christina's mom' but them looking for the respect to be named Elizabeth and Danielle and Carmen.”

“I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.”

“The spirit of non-conformity is as prevalent now in my part of west Yorkshire as it was in the time of my two immediate predecessors, Mike Wood and Elizabeth Peacock.”

“Elizabeth Taylor has reinvented herself and her image time and time again. The results have often helped redefine modern fashion.”

“J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday.”

“In 1960, I married Laurose Becker. We have two children: Elizabeth, born in 1961, and Matthew, born in 1963.”

“My first husband ran off with Elizabeth Taylor.”

“I remember watching Cate Blanchett in 'Elizabeth' and feeling like for the first time - even though that time period wasn't happening now - that I believed that role.”

“As a director, it just makes my life fantastic to work with people like Elizabeth Hawthorne.”

“When I first went to interview for 'Misery,' they were saying things like, 'You're not Michelle Pfeiffer, you know.' And I just don't get the relevance of that remark. I'm not Elizabeth Taylor, either. I'm not Sean Connery.”

“As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.”

“While I was writing 'Elizabeth Is Missing' and struggling with the intricacies of the plot, I told myself the next book would be really simple and linear, and I'd have it all worked out before I set down a single word.”

“My real name is Elizabeth, but I had a nanny growing up who called me 'Elizabeanie.' So from 4 months old, my brothers were, like, 'Let's call her Beanie.' To show people the validity of it, I always say that if I met the president, I would say, 'Hi, my name is Beanie.'”

“I've always been fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor, and I had read that her first kiss happened on a film set, which actually made me a little sad. You need to have normal experiences of your own.”

“When she absently worried her bottom lip with one of her adorable little fangs, he sighed.”