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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'm not a film star; I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.
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.
My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.
People who are very beautiful make their own laws.
I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
I will not be ignored.
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.
I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If I've made up my mind to do something, I can't be persuaded out of it.
I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
