My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.

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People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

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Life is too short to work so hard.

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People who are very beautiful make their own laws.

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

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I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.

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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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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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But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics saw fit to be as foolish as to say that I was a great actress. And I thought, that was a foolish, wicked thing to say, because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry. And it took me years to learn enough to live up to what they said-for those first notices. I find it so stupid. I remember the critic very well, and have never forgiven him.

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