I am going to be a great actress.

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.

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

...the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of everything else but its memory.

It might be just some trend that came and went, ' I said. 'But for us, it's our life.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

Fun, like champagne bubbles, can't completely fill you up.

It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in Wonderland.

We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance.

Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.

There isn't a problem on this earth that a doughnut cannot make better.

Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.