I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

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.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

...We are all Federalists, and we are all Republicans.

Pray tell, ” she said, although her voice told him not to.He ignored her tone, let out a thoughtful cloud of smoke, and said, ...

I don't hold doors for women. I'm not sure I really differentiate between men and women, in my door-related activities. Do women really care about this issue?

When you're NAT on the net, you're NOT on the net

Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.

We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.

Security will produce danger.

You aren’t old enough to have such regrets.” “Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady.