I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If I've made up my mind to do something, I can't be persuaded out of it.

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

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

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I've always been mad about cats.

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I realize that the memories I cherish most are not the first night successes, but of simple, everyday things: walking through our garden in the country after rain; sitting outside a cafe in Provence, drinking the vin de pays; staying at a little hotel in an English market town with Larry, in the early days after our marriage, when he was serving in the Fleet Air Arm, and I was touring Scotland, so that we had to make long treks to spend weekends together.

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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 cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.

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I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.

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