I will not be ignored.

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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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I've always been mad about cats.

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

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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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I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.

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Life is too short to work so hard.

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I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.

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

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