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"I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."

"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."

"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."

"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"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."


"English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously."


"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."


"I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world."


"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."


"One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays."


"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."
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