Vivien Leigh

“I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.”

“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.”

“My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.”

“English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Life is too short to work so hard.”

“My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.”

“I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.”

“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.”

“You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.”

“I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.”

“Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.”

“Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.”