"It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh."

"Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants."

"Why can't I have a decent, clean illness?"

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

"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."

"I'm not a film star – I'm an actress. Being a film star – just a film star – is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity."

"I am a mixture of my mother's determination and my father's optimism."

"Actresses go on for a long time and there are always marvelous parts to play."

"That's one of the two words in the English language I most detest - Pretty and the other is Beautiful."

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