Famous quotes by Vivien Leigh:
"It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh"
"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."
"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."
"I am going to be a great actress."
"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."
"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."
"I loved fencing and dancing and elocution."
"I'm not afraid to die."
"I've always been mad about cats."
"Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react."
"A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45."
"I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me."
"Life is too short to work so hard."
"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'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."
"Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play."
"I'm not young. What's wrong with that?"
"I always know my lines."