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.

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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.

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I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.

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Things are simple when you're going to die.

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

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People who are very beautiful make their own laws.

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Life is too short to work so hard.

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When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.

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I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.

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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

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