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'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.

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

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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 will not be ignored.

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Things are simple when you're going to die.

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Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.

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Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. . . . If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.

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

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