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.

I will not be ignored.

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 cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.

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

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 never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.