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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I always know my lines.

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Life is too short to work so hard.

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I've always been mad about cats.

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I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.

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I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.

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

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

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