People who are very beautiful make their own laws.

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.

I'm not young. What's wrong with that?

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 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.

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.

Scarlett tells Mammy: "I'm too young to be a widow." She weeps to her mother: "My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore." Her mother comforts her: "It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young."