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.

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.

I've always been mad about cats.

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

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.

Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love.

I admire people who come to politics because it takes a lot of courage to be in politics in India.

Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

I know my lies are always wishes.

You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules

It is your differences that make you glorious.

If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'

I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement.