Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler.

An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.

An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.

A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.

Never let them see you in public after you've turned 35. You're finished if you do!

Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.

I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

He believed with all his heart that we should spend our lives in happiness and service, in joy and work, in kindness and in love, and he lived... and died... what he believed.

I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

Most people in America think Art is a man's name.

Not a single reform effort in Russia has ever been completed.

Stop. Take 3 deep breaths and smile everywhere in your body, observing what's happening in your body. Proceed now with kindness and understanding.

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

I had to kiss Ruthie Henshall once with a cold. It was the final romantic moment in She Loves Me; as we separated, I noticed this arc of glistening mucus threaded between us.

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.