More Quotes by Vivien Leigh
Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.
I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
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.
Things are simple when you're going to die.
But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics saw fit to be as foolish as to say that I was a great actress. And I thought, that was a foolish, wicked thing to say, because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry. And it took me years to learn enough to live up to what they said-for those first notices. I find it so stupid. I remember the critic very well, and have never forgiven him.
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.
Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.
I always know my lines.
