#act

Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#every #going #how #i #know

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

#beautiful #beautiful woman #cooper #diana #edith

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

#act #acting #beauty #care #fairly

I am going to be a great actress. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#am #going #great #i #i am

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#greater #interpreter #just #more #plays

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

#audience #because #come #get #give

When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#every #felt #grand #had #i

I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be. ↗

— Ivan Lendl

#exactly #i #three #two #wanted

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience. ↗

— Jack Lemmon

#actor #audience #emotional #emotionally #front

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth. ↗

— John Lennon

#beatles #biggest #earth #fact #make