More Quotes by Vivien Leigh
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.
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.
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
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 loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
I will not be ignored.
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.
