Leigh Quotes

You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.

Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list.

I really like birds. Everyone always wants me to say that I can't stand to go near them, just like they want Janet Leigh to confess that she can't bear to take a shower. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you.

I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had.

If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.