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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.

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.

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 young. What's wrong with that?

I've always been mad about cats.

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

Life is too short to work so hard.

My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.

My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

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.

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.

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

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.

When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.