Vivien Leigh Quotes (45 Quotes)

I adore dancing.

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.

Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too 'I do want to escape too I'm so very tired of it all... The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us.'

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

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.'

I've always been mad about cats.

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

Life is too short to work so hard.

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.

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.

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.

Mammy chides her for choosing a green-sprigged muslin dress to wear that reveals too much skin 'You can't show your bosom 'fore three o'clock.'

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

As Rhett closes the front door behind him and leaves her, Scarlett speaks to the camera I can't let him go. I can't. There must be some way to bring him back. Oh I can't think about this now I'll go crazy if I do I'll think about it tomorrow. (She closes the door.) But I must think about it. I must think about it. What is there to do (She falls forward onto the ascending stairs.) What is there that matters.

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

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

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

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

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

She responds to Rhett Butlers sexually attractive gaze as he undresses her with his eyes 'He looks as if as if he knows what I look like without my shimmy.'

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

I always know my lines.

Scarlett tells Mammy 'I'm too young to be a widow.' She weeps to her mother 'My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore.' Her mother comforts her 'It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young.'

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'm not afraid to die.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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.

On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take note of the scene 'Take a good look, my dear. It's a historic moment. You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the Old South disappear one night.'

I am going to be a great actress.

I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.