My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

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.

Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.

With any character I play, I gravitate to the juxtaposition and humor.

I absolutely love talking to all of my fans.

I can't think of a time when we've had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian.

O Lord! You are the guide of those who are passing through the Valley of Bewilderment. If I am a heretic, enlarge my heresy.

So that's it? Your just going to give up?! After everything that has happened, your not going to even try?! You still don't know..... what truly matters.

You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions.

The evidence of conversion is not a decision card filled out, it's a life being lived out.

Taking away from someone else will never make you any better.

I was living life like in one of those Disney movies, where I genuinely believed nobody was ever going to die