I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.

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.

Never stop learning to be who you are meant to be just because you have found someone and decided to be like him/her.

Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.

We only think when we are confronted with a problem.

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

The negative screams at you but the positive only whispers.

You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

I don't chart out the life histories of the people I play. If I did, I'd be in trouble. I work with my heart and my head, and naturally emotions follow.

I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together.

The radio comes back even louder than you remember it.

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.