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.

Life is too short to work so hard.

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

I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.

Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.

People who are very beautiful make their own laws.

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.

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

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.

I've always been mad about cats.

Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality.

Who can say how many lives have been saved by books?

The future is a direction, not a destination.

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

God loves us for ourselves. He values our love more than he values galaxies of new created worlds.

Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits.

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

It is almost a sadness to my soul that men should be astonished and surprised at an ordinary, tangible evidence of the power of God.

I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.