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 shall play Scarlett O'Hara.

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

In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained; someone has been too extravagant. This does not happen in America or on the Continent, for the looks of a woman are considered a positive advertisement for her gifts and don't detract from them.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.

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.