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..

Having lost Rhett, she can always return to the land - to Tara, to soak up its strength. . . . Tara! . . . Home. I'll go home, and I'll think of some….

I shall play Scarlett O'Hara..

People who are very beautiful make their own laws..

But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics saw fit to be as foolish as to sa….

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

I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If I've made up my ….

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..

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..

You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong..

I realize that the memories I cherish most are not the first night successes, but of simple, everyday things: walking through our garden in the count….

I loved fencing and dancing and elocution..

My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconfor….

I will not be ignored..

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

I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing..

Things are simple when you're going to die..

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 lo….

Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us..

I've always been mad about cats..

In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained; some….