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I adore dancing.
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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
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When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.
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I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.
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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
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Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
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My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.
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You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.
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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.
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I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
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I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
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I'm not afraid to die.
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Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
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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.
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Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
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I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
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I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
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Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
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I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
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I've always been mad about cats.
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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
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I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
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Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.
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Life is too short to work so hard.
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English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
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One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.
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I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
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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.
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I always know my lines.
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I am going to be a great actress.
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People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.
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