Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we’re all going to live forever!

The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and what would I do with them, and how much were they going to get in my way?

To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to control and defy her destiny and to know her story is to be inspired by pity and terror.

Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.