"People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap."

"When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand."

"I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value."

"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."

"Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show."

"I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't."

"I adore dancing."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Life is too short to work so hard."

"I'm not young. What's wrong with that?"

"I never found accents difficult, after learning languages."

"I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be."

"Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play."

"I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything."

"My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick."

"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."

"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."

"My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do."

"Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react."

"I loved fencing and dancing and elocution."