I've always been mad about cats.

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Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

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I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.

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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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My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about.

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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.

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

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

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It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.

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Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.

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