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"I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything."
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"Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used."

"I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same."

"There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant."

"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."

"The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese."
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"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."


"Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh."


"Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants."


"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."
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