People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

I am going to be a great actress.

I've always been mad about cats.

When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.

I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.

I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.

I'm not young. What's wrong with that?

Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.

My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

I'm not afraid to die.

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.

Life is too short to work so hard.

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

I always know my lines.

My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.

Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

I adore dancing.

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.

I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

You cant act on an empty stomach because youre breathings all wrong.

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy and a much better training I think. Its much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

Ive been a godmother loads of times but being a grandmother is better than anything.

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?

Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.