Quotes from Vivien Leigh

Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.

I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

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.

Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

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.

I am going to be a great actress.

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

I've always been mad about cats.

Life is too short to work so hard.

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.

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 never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

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.

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

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.

Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.

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.

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.

Things are simple when you're going to die.

Every single night I'm nervous.

Life is too short to work so hard.