Vivien Leigh Quotes

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.

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.

I adore dancing.

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.

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

I always know my lines.

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

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

My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don’t pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.

Having lost Rhett, she can always return to the land – to Tara, to soak up its strength. . . . Tara! . . . Home. I’ll go home, and I’ll think of some way to get him back! After all, tomorrow is another day!

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

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

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.

Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

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 cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If I’ve made up my mind to do something, I can’t be persuaded out of it.

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

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

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.

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’m not young. What’s wrong with that?

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

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

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.

Things are simple when you’re going to die.

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

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.

I am going to be a great actress.

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 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.

Life is too short to work so hard.

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

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.

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’m not afraid to die.