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 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'm not young. What's wrong with that?

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

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

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

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

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Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.

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