More Quotes by Vivien Leigh
I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.
I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
I'm not a film star; I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.
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.
You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
I realize that the memories I cherish most are not the first night successes, but of simple, everyday things: walking through our garden in the country after rain; sitting outside a cafe in Provence, drinking the vin de pays; staying at a little hotel in an English market town with Larry, in the early days after our marriage, when he was serving in the Fleet Air Arm, and I was touring Scotland, so that we had to make long treks to spend weekends together.
