More Quotes by Vivien Leigh
Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.
Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.
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.
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?'
You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
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.
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.
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.
