Actress Quotes

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.

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.

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.

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

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

I'm not afraid to die.

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.

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

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

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

Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

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.

A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

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

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.

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.

I always know my lines.

I've always been mad about cats.

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

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

Life is too short to work so hard.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.

When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.

People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant.

People can have so many ill-conceived ideas about me based on the parts that I play. I've had guys, when I've been single, come out of the woodwork to date me and I've found out very quickly that they were expecting some kind of whirlwind, some dramatic crazy person - and that's just not me.

One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.

It's very exciting to work with people who inspire you.

I've always done roles that really appealed to me on a gut level and which I found inspiring.

I'd much rather be in a movie that people have really strong feelings about than one that makes a hundred million dollars but you can't remember because it's just like all the others.