I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.

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 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.

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

If a thousand painters worked for a thousand years, they could not create a work of art as beautiful as you

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may Old Time is still aflying And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.

What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

I'm always nervous before I go on stage, but once I'm out there everything is great and it's my favorite place to be.

I don't want to get involved in the racial situation at the expense of losing fans. I wouldn't say anything too strong but I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.

I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective.

What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.

If you want to get broken in good, put four girls on the road together in a van and tour up and down the country.

You know you can be having a bad day and someone will walk by and say: 'Hey, I love you, Will.' That really cheers you up. That's a really lovely thing.