I've always been mad about cats.

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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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When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.

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

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Things are simple when you're going to die.

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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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I will not be ignored.

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

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Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.

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

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