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Having lost Rhett, she can always return to the land - to Tara, to soak up its strength. . . . Tara! . . . Home. I'll go home, and I'll think of some way to get him back! After all, tomorrow is another day!
― Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Home
Thinking
Land
I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
― Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Dancing
Elocution
Fencing
I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.
― Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Beautiful
Thinking
People
I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
― Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Acting
Should
Method
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.
― Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Girl
Mother
Voice
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?'
― Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Tired
Stories
Today
I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
― Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Play
ScarlettOHara
You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
― Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Breathing
Empty
Stomach
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.
― Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Thinking
People
Acting
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
― Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Play
Imagination
Training
A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
― Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
EvaPeron
Lucky
Died
I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
― Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Grandmother
Godmother
Grandmother
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.
― Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Wise
Men
Talking
I always know my lines.
― Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Lines
Knows
I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
― Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Different
Enough
Restless
I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
― Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Made
Given
Havens
Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. . . . If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.
― Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Fun
Spring
War
I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
― Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Scorpios
LikeMe
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.
― Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Husband
Oedipus
Actors
I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
― Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Beautiful
Needs
Looks
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