[Talking to critics about her reviews for "The Mask of Virtue" (1935), her second play on the London stage] "It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh." "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." "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." [when asked to take over Joan Crawford's role in Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte] "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." [on Alexander Korda] "Alex was like a father to us - we went to see him with every little problem we had. We usually left convinced that he had solved it - or that we'd got our own way." All day long you're really leading up to the evening's performance. To time everything correctly, you have to take care of yourself-which is a very difficult thing to do, because it's highly emotional Am I finished with Hollywood? Good heavens, no! I shall certainly go back there if there is a film to make. Actresses go on for a long time and there are always marvelous parts to play.

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