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I adore dancing.
I will not be ignored.
I always know my lines.
I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
Every single night I'm nervous.
I've always been mad about cats.
I am going to be a great actress.
Life is too short to work so hard.
I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
Things are simple when you're going to die.
Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.
People who are very beautiful make their own laws.
It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.
I never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.
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.
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.
I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.
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.
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.
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 think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.
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.
Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If I've made up my mind to do something, I can't be persuaded out of it.
Some critics saw fit to say that I was a great actress. I thought that was a foolish, wicket thing to say because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry.