More Quotes by Vivien Leigh
You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
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 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.
People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.
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.
I've always been mad about cats.
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.