94 Quotes by Vivien Leigh

I’ve always been mad about cats.

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 young. What’s wrong with that?

On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take note of the scene: “Take a good look, my dear. It’s a historic moment. You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the Old South disappear one night.”

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

My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don’t pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.

It’s much easier to make people cry than to laugh.

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.

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