Vivien Leigh Quotes
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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.
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I've always been mad about cats.
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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.
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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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I will not be ignored.
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I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
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Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
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My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.
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Scarlett, from the ashes of the war-ravaged land at Tara, remembering what she was taught by her father in happier times: "As God is my witness, as God is my witness, they're not going to lick me! I'm going to live through this, and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again - no, nor any of my folks! If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill! As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."
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I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
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I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.
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I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
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Every single night I'm nervous.
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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.
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People who are very beautiful make their own laws.
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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.
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Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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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.
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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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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.
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In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained; someone has been too extravagant. This does not happen in America or on the Continent, for the looks of a woman are considered a positive advertisement for her gifts and don't detract from them.
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I am going to be a great actress.
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Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. . . . If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.