I've always been mad about cats.
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.
Life is too short to work so hard.
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.
Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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.
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.
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.