I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

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.

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.

I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.

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.

People who are very beautiful make their own laws.