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

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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 shall play Scarlett O'Hara.

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Having lost Rhett, she can always return to the land - to Tara, to soak up its strength. . . . Tara! . . . Home. I'll go home, and I'll think of some way to get him back! After all, tomorrow is another day!

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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'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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You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

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

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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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