My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

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.

Growing gray hair is the glory of life.

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.

I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life. Out of the blankness that surrounds me I must pluck the incident after incident after incident whose little explosions keep me going.

The team with the most talent usually wins.

I am not a father who wants to give his kids everything. They have to earn it.

I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!

Dallas Green is basically Canadian royalty.

I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.