I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.

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I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

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Things are simple when you're going to die.

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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.

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

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

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Who could quarrel with Clark Gable? We got on well. Whenever anyone on the set was tired or depressed, it was Gable who cheered that person up. Then the newspapers began printing the story that Gable and I were not getting on. This was so ridiculous it served only as a joke. From the time on the standard greeting between Clark and myself became, 'How are you not getting on today?'

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Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.

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

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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.

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