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.
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.
My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about.
I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. . . . If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.
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.
You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
I always know my lines.
I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.
I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
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.
I am going to be a great actress.
I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
Scarlett tells Mammy: "I'm too young to be a widow." She weeps to her mother: "My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore." Her mother comforts her: "It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young."
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.
Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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.
On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take note of the scene: "Take a good look, my dear. It's a historic moment. You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the Old South disappear one night."
Every single night I'm nervous.
I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
