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

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I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.

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I'm not young. What's wrong with that?

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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.

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Life is too short to work so hard.

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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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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.

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

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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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