More Quotes by Vivien Leigh
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.
I've always been mad about cats.
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.
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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 don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
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 cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
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.
