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.

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.

All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield.

Friendship is not just about having fun, it’s about supporting each other in time of weakness.

All leadership in the Kingdom is by example.

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

I would have to say that looked like it hurt.

You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.

Don't you like when the winter's gone, And all of a sudden it starts gettin' warm? The trees and the grass start lookin' fresh, And the sun and sky be lookin' their best.

Innumerable Buddhas Enlightened... innumerable Christs crucified... always the same Christ, the same Buddha!

As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is.

There is no religion higher than Truth.