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More Quotes by Vivien Leigh
My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.
I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If I've made up my mind to do something, I can't be persuaded out of it.
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.
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.
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.
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.
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.