The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.

Cleopatra: You come before me as a suppliant.

Antony: If you choose to regard me as such.

Cleopatra: You will therefore assume the position of a suppliant before this throne. You will kneel.

Antony: I will *what*?

Cleopatra: On-your-knees!

Antony: You dare ask the Proconsul of the Roman Empire?

Cleopatra: I *asked* it of Julius Caesar. I *demand* it of you

My idol when I was a kid was Elizabeth Taylor.

Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.

Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.

My first husband ran off with Elizabeth Taylor.