Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

- Vivien Leigh

People who are very beautiful make their own laws.

- Vivien Leigh

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.

- Vivien Leigh

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

I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If I've made up my …

- Vivien Leigh

Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.

- 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

I'm not young. What's wrong with that?

- Vivien Leigh

Life is too short to work so hard.

- Vivien Leigh