Quotes By Vivien Leigh

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.

Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

I've always been mad about cats.

Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.

My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.

I adore dancing.

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.

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.

Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.

I always know my lines.

Life is too short to work so hard.

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.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.

I'm not afraid to die.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.

When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.

I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.

I'm not young. What's wrong with that?

I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.

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.