Daily Inspiration Quote by Elizabeth Taylor

Restless, a little chastened, and still glamorously defiant, this line reads like Elizabeth Taylor catching her own reflection between takes and refusing to let it flatter her. The first two clauses are a neat self-indictment: “So much to do” sets an ambition horizon; “so little done” punctures it with an almost comic sting of insufficiency. It’s not humblebragging so much as a recognition of how fame distorts time. Celebrity makes your life look complete from the outside - charitable causes, marriages, headlines, movie history - while you privately feel the backlog of unfinished tasks and emotional repairs.

Then she swerves: “such things to be.” That final turn is the engine. It shifts the problem from productivity to identity, from a to-do list to a self still under construction. The grammar matters: “things” suggests roles, versions, selves; “to be” refuses closure. Coming from Taylor, an actress whose public image was constantly rewritten by tabloids and studios, it lands as a quiet pushback against being reduced to what’s already been “done.” She’s pointing at the gap between achievement and becoming.

The subtext is both personal and cultural: a woman who lived loudly, often punished for it, staking a claim to interior complexity. It’s a concise rebuke to the idea that a life - especially a famous woman’s life - can be totaled up like credits on a screen.