Vivien Leigh Quotes

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

Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.

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 never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.

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.

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

It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

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

Every single night I'm nervous.

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 don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.

I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.

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

I'm not afraid to die.

I always know my lines.

Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.

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.

I am going to be a great actress.

I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.

You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.

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

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

People who are very beautiful make their own laws.

I will not be ignored.

Things are simple when you're going to die.

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

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

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

I've always been mad about cats.

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

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.

Life is too short to work so hard.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.

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