More Quotes by Vivien Leigh
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.
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.
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.
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.
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.
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.
People who are very beautiful make their own laws.
A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
