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.

Life is too short to work so hard.

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.

It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.

Intelligence could be more briliant within modesty.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

A true friend unbosoms freely advises justly assists readily adventures boldly takes all patiently defends courageously and continues a friend unchangeably.

After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.

I've had a couple of pinch-me moments.

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination.

Physical elegance comes from the body. This is no superficial matter but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

The body itself is to reveal the light that's blazing inside your Presence.

How troublesome is day! It calls us from our sleep away; It bids us from our pleasant dreams awake, And sends us forth to keep or break Our promises to pay. How troublesome is day!