Vivien Leigh Quotes

Life is too short to work so hard.

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

I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.

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

People who are very beautiful make their own laws.

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.

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

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.

I've always been mad about cats.

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

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.

Things are simple when you're going to die.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.

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

I will not be ignored.

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

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

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.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

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.

I always know my lines.

I am going to be a great actress.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.

I never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.

Every single night I'm nervous.

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

Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.

Streetcar is a 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.