94 Quotes by Vivien Leigh

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

Scarlett tells Mammy: “I’m too young to be a widow.” She weeps to her mother: “My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore.” Her mother comforts her: “It’s only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young.”

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.

Every single night I’m nervous.

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.

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.

You can’t act on an empty stomach, because you’re breathing’s all wrong.

I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.

Some critics saw fit to say that I was a great actress. I thought that was a foolish, wicket thing to say because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn’t able to carry.