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
I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
I always know my lines.
I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.
Every single night I'm nervous.
I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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.
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.
Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.
You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
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.
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.