You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.

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.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had... so he sent me to a girls school.

Taub Therapy gives patients hope that they can recapture the life they had before suffering a stroke or TBI.

I just don't want to be self-obsessed.

As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information.

The saying, "Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it applies to all of us on a daily basis.

Perhaps it does not matter so very much what it is one loves in this world. But love something one must.

I've played killers, crazies, and really bad people.