More Quotes by Vivien Leigh
In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained; someone has been too extravagant. This does not happen in America or on the Continent, for the looks of a woman are considered a positive advertisement for her gifts and don't detract from them.
Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.
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.
It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.
Things are simple when you're going to die.
Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. . . . If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.
I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
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.
I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
I've always been mad about cats.