Quotes By Vivien Leigh

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

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

I am going to be a great actress.

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.

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've always been mad about cats.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

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.

Life is too short to work so hard.

I always know my lines.

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.