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

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

I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.

I've always been mad about cats.

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

Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.

A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.

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.

On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take note of the scene: Take a good look, my dear. It's a historic moment. You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the Old South disappear one night.

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

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 way to get him back! After all, tomorrow is another day!

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.

Who could quarrel with Clark Gable? We got on well. Whenever anyone on the set was tired or depressed, it was Gable who cheered that person up. Then the newspapers began printing the story that Gable and I were not getting on. This was so ridiculous it served only as a joke. From the time on the standard greeting between Clark and myself became, 'How are you not getting on today?'

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

I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.

My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about.

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.

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