If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

Acting is the best medicine in the world - if you're not feeling well, it goes away because you are busy thinking about something that isn't yourself. We actors are very fortunate people.

I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.