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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Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

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I've always been mad about cats.

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I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.

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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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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 always know my lines.

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

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