Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Vivian Mary Hartley, later known as Vivien Leigh and Lady Olivier, was an English stage and film actress. She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress for her performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Windand Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire, a role she had also played on stage in London's West End in 1949. She also won a Tony Award for her work in the Broadway version of Tovarich...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth5 November 1913
CityDarjeeling, India
It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh
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.
My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.
It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.
Things are simple when you're going to die.
I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.
Who could quarrel with Clark Gable? We got on well. Whenever anyone on the set was tired or depressed, it was Gable who cheered that person up. Then the newspapers began printing the story that Gable and I were not getting on. This was so ridiculous it served only as a joke. From the time on the standard greeting between Clark and myself became, 'How are you not getting on today?'
I am going to be a great actress.
I've always been mad about cats.
My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.
I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
I will not be ignored.
Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.