Vivien Leigh Quotes
"I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: People, Woman, World)
"I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Theatre, Training, Value)
"I never found accents difficult, after learning languages."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Learning)
"I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms."
- Vivien Leigh
"I loved fencing and dancing and elocution."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Dancing)
"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."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Life, Values, Being, Film, Publicity)
"I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Will)
"I'm not afraid to die."
- Vivien Leigh
"I am going to be a great actress."
- Vivien Leigh
"I always know my lines."
- Vivien Leigh
"I adore dancing."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Dancing)
"Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Night)
"English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Age, People, English, France, Learning)
"Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved."
- Vivien Leigh
"I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Right)
"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."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Family, Love, American, Blood, Irish, Parents, states, United)
"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."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Happiness, Mother)
"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."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Paris, Play, School)
"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."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Love, People, Act, Pleasure, Security, Sense, Theatre, Trying)
"Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Play)
"Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Truth)
"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."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Sea, Shakespeare, Words)
"I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me."
- Vivien Leigh
"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."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Act)
"A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45."
- Vivien Leigh
"My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Parents)
"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."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Love, HusbFirst, Friends, Reason)
"Life is too short to work so hard."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Life, Work)
"I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Being)
"I've always been mad about cats."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Cats)
"I'm not young. What's wrong with that?"
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Wrong)
"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."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Beauty, People, Act, Acting, Care)
"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."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: People, Comedy, Tragedy, Training)
"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."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Imagination, Shakespeare, Training)