I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

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.

One gets recurrent thoughts about things he had insisted upon and about matters he formed opinions!

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

I don't ever want to make taking pictures into another way of saying 'Here I am'. Because I'm as here as I want to be.

I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for.

My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

I’m really not interested in women as victims. Look at me, I get the last laugh ‘cause I get to be funny about it.

All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect.