More Quotes by Vivien Leigh
I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
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.
I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
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.
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.
You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
I've always been mad about cats.
Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.
