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

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.

The strength of the spirit is measured by sufferings.

Do you know how easy it would be to kill you, Miya? I've thought about it--killing you...and you think I'm not a monster.--Dylan

The higher the truth, the simpler it is.

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

As a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the birth of a virtuous son.

a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.

Fame is a series of misunderstandin gs surrounding a name.

All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

In YC experience, 2 or 3 co-founders seems to be about perfect.

I've always been quiet and kind of shy. I'm sociable, but I would probably migrate to a corner.