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 Vivien Leigh Quotation"It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh." Talking to critics about her reviews for "The Mask of Virtue" (1935), her second play on the London stage: "Some critics saw fit to say that I was a great actress. I thought that was a foolish, wicked thing to say because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry." "People who are very beautiful make their own laws." "Scorpios burn themselves out and eat themselves up and they are careless about themselves - like me. I swing between happiness and misery and I cry easily. I am a mixture of my mother's determination and my father's optimism. I am part prude and part non-conformist and I say what I think and don't dissemble. I am a mixture of French, Irish and Yorkshire, and perhaps that's what it all is." "A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion." "No thank you. I can just about stand looking at Joan Crawford's face at six o'clock in the morning, but not Bette Davis." - when asked to take over Crawford's role in Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964). Movie Title: That Hamilton Woman (1941) as Emma: The Streetgirl : And then? Emma : Then what? The Streetgirl : What happened after? Emma : There is no "then". There is no "after". Movie Title: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) as Blanche DuBois: Blanche DuBois : Is there something wrong with me? Blanche DuBois : Please don't get up. Stanley Kowalski : Nobody's going to get up, so don't be worried. Blanche DuBois : Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable, and the one thing I've never been guilty of. Blanche DuBois : Oh look, we have created enchantment. Blanche DuBois : I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. Mitch : I guess we strike you as being a pretty rough bunch. Blanche DuBois : I'm very adaptable to circumstances. Blanche DuBois : Tarantula was the name of it. I stayed at a hotel called the Tarantula Arms. Mitch : Tarantula Arms? Blanche DuBois : Yes, a big spider. That's where I brought my victims. Yes, I've had many meetings with strangers. Blanche DuBois : Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. Blanche DuBois : I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is 50% illusion. Blanche DuBois : I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. Blanche DuBois : I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I said I was sorry three times. Blanche DuBois : My, but you have an impressive, judicial air. Stanley Kowalski : You know, if I didn't know that you was my wife's sister, I would get ideas about you... Don't play so dumb. You know what. Blanche DuBois : You're married to a madman. Stella : I wish you'd stop taking it for granted that I'm in something I want to get out of. Blanche DuBois : What you are talking about is desire - just brutal Desire. The name of that rattle-trap streetcar that bangs through the Quarter, up one old narrow street and down another. Stella : Haven't you ever ridden on that streetcar? Blanche DuBois : It brought me here. Where I'm not wanted and where I'm ashamed to be. Stella : Don't you think your superior attitude is a little out of place? Blanche DuBois : May I speak plainly?... If you'll forgive me, he's common... He's like an animal. He has an animal's habits. There's even something subhuman about him. Thousands of years have passed him right by, and there he is. Stanley Kowalski, survivor of the Stone Age, bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle. And you - you here waiting for him. Maybe he'll strike you or maybe grunt and kiss you, that's if kisses have been discovered yet. His poker night you call it. This party of apes. Blanche DuBois : Mr. Kowalski is too busy making a pig of himself... Your face and your fingers are disgustingly greasy. Blanche DuBois : Straight? What's 'straight'? A line can be straight, or a street. But the heart of a human being? Blanche DuBois : Marry me, Mitch. Mitch : No, I don't think I want to marry you anymore... No, you're not clean enough to bring into the house with my mother. Movie Title: Gone with the Wind (1939) as Scarlett: Prissy : Mammy, here's Miss Scarlet's vittles. Scarlett : You can take it all back to the kitchen; I won't eat a bite. Mammy : Yessam you is, you's gonna eat every mouthful of this. Scarlett : No... I'm... NOT. Scarlett : Atlanta. Mammy : Savannah would be better for ya. You just get in trouble in Atlanta. Scarlett : What trouble you talkin' 'bout? Mammy : You know what trouble I's talkin' 'bout. Mr. Ashley be comin' to Atlanta when he get's his leave, and you sattin' there waitin' for him, just like a spider. Scarlett : You go pack my things like Mother said. Scarlett : Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar. Scarlett : I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow. Rhett Butler : Now that you've got your lumber mill and Frank's money, you won't come to me as you did to the jail, so I see I shall have to marry you. Scarlett : I never heard of such bad taste. Scarlett : War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. Brent Tarleton : Not going to be any war? Stuart Tarleton : Why, honey, of course there's going to be a war. Scarlett : If either of you says war just once again I'll go in the house and slam the door. Scarlett : I can shoot straight, if I don't have to shoot too far. [Upon being widowed] Scarlett : My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me again. Rhett Butler : Did you ever think of marrying just for fun? Scarlett : Marriage, fun? Fiddle-dee-dee. Fun for men you mean. Scarlett : You'd rather live with that silly little fool who can't open her mouth except to say "yes" or "no" and raise a passel of mealy-mouthed brats just like her. Ashley : You mustn't say unkind things about Melanie. Scarlett : Who are you to tell me I mustn't? You led me on... you made me believe you wanted to marry me. Ashley : Now Scarlett, be fair. I never at any time... Scarlett : You did, it's true, you did. Scarlett : Rhett, Rhett... Rhett, if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do? Rhett Butler : Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. Scarlett : Sir, you are no gentleman. Rhett Butler : And you, Miss, are no lady. Scarlett : Oh Ashley, Ashley, I love you. Ashley : Scarlett. Scarlett : I love you, I do. Scarlett : As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again. Mammy : Oh no you ain't. If you don't care what folks says about this family, I does. And I done told you and told you, you can always tell a lady by the way she eats in front of people like a bird. And I ain't aimin' to have you go over to Mista John Wilkes' house and eat like a field hand and gobble like a hog. Scarlett : Ashley Wilkes says he likes to see a girl with a healthy appetite. Mammy : Well I ain't see Mista Ashley asked for to marry you. [last line] Scarlett : Tara! Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all... tomorrow is another day. Scarlett : Now isn't this better than sitting at a table? A girl hasn't got but two sides to her at the table. Scarlett : But you are a blockade runner. Rhett Butler : For profit, and profit only. Scarlett : Are you tryin' to tell me you don't believe in the cause? Rhett Butler : I believe in Rhett Butler, he's the only cause I know. Rhett Butler : And those pantalettes, I don't know a woman in Paris who wears pantalettes. Scarlett : Oh Rhett, what do they - you shouldn't talk about such things. Rhett Butler : You little hypocrite. You don't mind my knowing about them, just my talking about it. Scarlett : But really Rhett, I can't go on accepting these gifts although you are AWFULLY kind. Rhett Butler : I'm not kind, I'm just tempting you. Scarlett : Well if you think I'll marry you just to pay for the bonnet I won't. Rhett Butler : Don't flatter yourself. I'm not a marrying man. Scarlett : Ooh if I just wasn't a lady, WHAT wouldn't I tell that varmint. Scarlett : Cathleen, who's that man staring at us? The nasty dog. Cathleen Calvert : Why that's Rhett Butler, he's from Charleston. Scarlett : He looks as if he knows what I look like without my shimmy. Scarlett : I only know that I love you. Rhett Butler : That's your misfortune. Scarlett : Rhett, don't. I shall faint. Rhett Butler : I want you to faint. This is what you were meant for. None of the fools you've ever know have kissed you like this, have they? Your Charles, or your Frank, or your stupid Ashley. Scarlett : [to Ashley] Dreams, dreams always dreams with you, never common sense. Rene Picard : Twenty dollars. Twenty dollars for Miss Maybelle Merriwether. Tony Fontaine : Twenty five dollars for Miss Fanny Elsing. Dr. Meade : Only twenty five dollars to give? Rhett Butler : One hundred and fifty dollars in gold. Dr. Meade : For what lady, sir? Rhett Butler : For Mrs. Charles Hamilton. Dr. Meade : For whom, sir? Rhett Butler : Mrs. Charles Hamilton. Dr. Meade : Mrs. Hamilton is in mourning, Captain Butler. But I'm sure any of our Atlanta belles would be proud to... Rhett Butler : Dr. Meade, I said Mrs. Charles Hamilton. Dr. Meade : She will not consider it, sir. Scarlett : Oh, yes, I will. Movie Title: Larry and Vivien: The Oliviers in Love (2001) as Vivien Leigh: Vivien Leigh : What an awkward question to answer, it depends who thinks I am, I don't think I am beautiful. |
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