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

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.

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.

Live to revel in just another twilight. Life may sink and disappear along with the sunset never to rise again

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.

Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.

You ain't gotta go to church to find your God.

Discipline is important as long as you're having a good time. What I always did was I did what I enjoyed, and I think that's why I don't have any grey hairs.

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

I think I am beginning to learn something about painting.