I'm not afraid to die.

I adore dancing.

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.

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.

Some critics saw fit to say that I was a great actress. I thought that was a foolish, wicket thing to say because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn’t able to carry.

I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.

You can’t act on an empty stomach, because you’re breathing’s all wrong.

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.

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.

Every single night I’m nervous.