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 realize that the memories I cherish most are not the first night successes, but of simple, everyday things: walking through our garden in the country after rain; sitting outside a cafe in Provence, drinking the vin de pays; staying at a little hotel in an English market town with Larry, in the early days after our marriage, when he was serving in the Fleet Air Arm, and I was touring Scotland, so that we had to make long treks to spend weekends together.

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.

Scarlett, from the ashes of the war-ravaged land at Tara, remembering what she was taught by her father in happier times: "As God is my witness, as God is my witness, they're not going to lick me! I'm going to live through this, and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again - no, nor any of my folks! If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill! As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."

Every single night I'm nervous.

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

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