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.

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.

Bad weather always looks worse through a window.

You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get.

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life.

A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.

You can find inspiration for man's behaviour wherever you look.

But treat dimes fair and I'm bigger than the city lights down in times square

Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous!

I'll do whatever it takes for a movie. I don't really care what that is.