Quotes from Vivien Leigh

I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.

I've always been mad about cats.

I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.

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'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.

I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

I adore dancing.

My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

I'm not afraid to die.

A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

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.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

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.

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.

Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.