Quote

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.

Vivien Leigh

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Vivien Leigh
Age: 53 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 5
Died: 1967
Died: July 8
Actor
Film Actor
Film Actress
Stage Actor
Darjeeling (India)
Vivien Leigh
Lady Olivier
Vivian Mary Hartley
Leigh
Lady Olivier
Train
Sea
Swims
Wants
Shaw
Words
Bathing
Speak
Sits
Place
Shakespeare
Like
Swim
Speaks

More quotes by Vivien Leigh

Image
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
Vivien Leigh
Image
Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.
Vivien Leigh
Image
When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.
Vivien Leigh
Image
I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If I've made up my mind to do something, I can't be persuaded out of it.
Vivien Leigh
Image
I've always been mad about cats.
Vivien Leigh
Image
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.
Vivien Leigh
Image
I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.
Vivien Leigh
Image
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.
Vivien Leigh
Image
I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.
Vivien Leigh
Image
Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too: I do want to escape too! I'm so very tired of it all!. . . The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us.
Vivien Leigh
Image
Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.
Vivien Leigh
Image
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.
Vivien Leigh
Image
I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
Vivien Leigh
Image
I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
Vivien Leigh
Image
Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
Vivien Leigh
Image
I always know my lines.
Vivien Leigh
Image
I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
Vivien Leigh
Image
I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.
Vivien Leigh
Image
I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
Vivien Leigh
Image
I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
Vivien Leigh