Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.

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.

Friendship warrants giving up the ego, submitting you to the other person, and remaining non-judgemental in the whole process.

You never know. Maybe when we’re dreaming…we’re more lucid than when we are awake.

No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work.

Being in love with someone who doesn't love you back is a tragedy. A fantasy is having someone understand the real you and love you anyway.

The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

I think politics and personal psychology and interrelationships - these things are interrelated to me and overlap.

Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.

You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.

Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere.

At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better.