Quotes
"It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh." Talking to cricitcs about her reviews for "The Mask of Virtue" (1935), her second play on the London stage:
"Some critics saw fit to say that I was a great actress. I thought that was a foolish, wicked thing to say because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry."
"People who are very beautiful make their own laws."
"Scorpios burn themselves out and eat themselves up and they are careless about themselves - like me. I swing between happiness and misery and I cry easily. I am a mixture of my mother's determination and my father's optimism. I am part prude and part non-conformist and I say what I think and don't dissemble. I am a mixture of French, Irish and Yorkshire, and perhaps that's what it all is."
"A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion."
"No thank you. I can just about stand looking at Joan Crawford's face at six o'clock in the morning, but not Bette Davis." - when asked to take over Crawford's role in #Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)"
