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

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Things are simple when you're going to die.

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

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In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained; someone has been too extravagant. This does not happen in America or on the Continent, for the looks of a woman are considered a positive advertisement for her gifts and don't detract from them.

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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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I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

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People who are very beautiful make their own laws.

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I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.

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