More Quotes by Vivien Leigh
I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
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.
A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
I will not be ignored.
Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.
But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics saw fit to be as foolish as to say that I was a great actress. And I thought, that was a foolish, wicked thing to say, because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry. And it took me years to learn enough to live up to what they said-for those first notices. I find it so stupid. I remember the critic very well, and have never forgiven him.
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've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
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.
