Things are simple when you're going to die.

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.

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.

I would switch roles with Madonna for a day. Or if Audrey Hepburn was still alive, Audrey Hepburn. I love Audrey Hepburn. She's one of my idols also.

It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

When I get the chance, I'm at the theaters all the time, trying to check out the latest movies.

Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.

Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.

I'm not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.