More Quotes by Vivien Leigh
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 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 don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
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.
Things are simple when you're going to die.
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.
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.
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
