Vivien Leigh

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

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.

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.

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

I'm not afraid to die.

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

I am going to be a great actress.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.