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.

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Life is too short to work so hard.

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

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

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

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

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

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But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics saw fit to be as foolish as to say that I was a great actress. And I thought, that was a foolish, wicked thing to say, because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry. And it took me years to learn enough to live up to what they said-for those first notices. I find it so stupid. I remember the critic very well, and have never forgiven him.

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People who are very beautiful make their own laws.

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