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.

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

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

Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.

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.

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.

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 nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.