I've always been mad about cats.

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.

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

He threw me off the building into the abyss with his words. Oh, the ocean was so deep, but his words were so shallow!

Focus on the things that your dream is demanding from you

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.

Women are part of the constitution.

People don't do me much good.

If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he is not free at all.

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.