I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.

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

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

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

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My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.

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Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. . . . If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.

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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.

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I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.

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I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.

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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

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