More Quotes by Vivien Leigh
My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about.
I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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.
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 have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
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.
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.
I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
