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
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
People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can’t possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap. – Vivien Leigh
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. – Vivien Leigh
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
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’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
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. – Vivien Leigh
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
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. – Vivien Leigh
