Guess quote

Vivien Leigh [1913-1967] English

Rank: 101
Actress, Film actress

Vivien Leigh was an English stage and film actress. She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress for her performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire, a role she had also played on stage in London's West End in 1949.

Age, Beauty, Happiness, Imagination, Learning, Life, Pet, Thankful, Truth

Quote	Tags	Rank
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.		101
I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.		102
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.		103
I'm not afraid to die.		104
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.		105
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.	Happiness	106
Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.	Thankful	107
I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.		108
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.	Beauty	109
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.	Truth	110
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.	Age, Learning	111
A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.		112
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.	Imagination	113
Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.		114
I'm not young. What's wrong with that?		115
I've always been mad about cats.	Pet	116
Life is too short to work so hard.	Life	117
I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.		118
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.		119
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.		120
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.		121
I adore dancing.		122
I am going to be a great actress.		123
I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.		124
I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.		125
I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.		126
I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.		201
I always know my lines.		202
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.		203
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.		204
My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.		205
When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.		206
I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.		207
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.		208
Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.		209

The script ran 0.005 seconds.