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My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.


Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over.


My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France.


It was so kind of you to mention that I don't wear stays. What's the point? If you squeeze it in at one point, it only comes out at the other.


I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.


I'm not afraid. I never liked long last acts.


I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.


I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.


I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done.


I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.


I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.


After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.


They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.


It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.


The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.


Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery.


Feed the dogs. I hate to hear them barking like that.


I shall fulfill my contract, no more nor less.


I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.


On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them.