More Quotes by Vivien Leigh
A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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.
Who could quarrel with Clark Gable? We got on well. Whenever anyone on the set was tired or depressed, it was Gable who cheered that person up. Then the newspapers began printing the story that Gable and I were not getting on. This was so ridiculous it served only as a joke. From the time on the standard greeting between Clark and myself became, 'How are you not getting on today?'
I've always been mad about cats.
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.
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.
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.
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 need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
