Vivien Leigh born Vivian Mary Hartley and styled as Lady Olivier after 1947, was a British stage and film actress. She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress. These inspirational Vivien Leigh Quotes will change your life.
Best Vivien Leigh Quotes
- “Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.” – Vivien Leigh
- “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.” – Vivien Leigh
- “People who are very beautiful make their own laws.” – Vivien Leigh
- “Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.” – Vivien Leigh
- “Life is too short to work so hard.” – Vivien Leigh
- “It’s much easier to make people cry than to laugh.” – Vivien Leigh
- “I’m not young. What’s wrong with that?” – Vivien Leigh
-
“I’ve always been mad about cats.” – Vivien Leigh
- “Dear Lord, I’m so grateful I’m still loved.” – Vivien Leigh
- “I will not be ignored.” – Vivien Leigh
- “Things are simple when you’re going to die.” – Vivien Leigh
- “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.” – Vivien Leigh
-
“I always know my lines.” – Vivien Leigh
- “I don’t know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.” – Vivien Leigh
- “I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.” – Vivien Leigh
- “A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I’m already 45.” – Vivien Leigh
- “I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.” – Vivien Leigh
- “I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven’t.” – Vivien Leigh
- “I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.” – Vivien Leigh
- “I’m a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.” – Vivien Leigh
-
“You can’t act on an empty stomach, because you’re breathing’s all wrong.” – Vivien Leigh
- “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.” – Vivien Leigh
- “I’ve been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.” – Vivien Leigh
- “I never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.” – Vivien Leigh
- “I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.” – Vivien Leigh
- “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.” – Vivien Leigh
- “Every single night I’m nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.” – Vivien Leigh
- “I am going to be a great actress.” – Vivien Leigh
- “My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.” – Vivien Leigh
- “Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.” – Vivien Leigh
