Leigh Quotes

I really like birds. Everyone always wants me to say that I can't stand to go near them, just like they want Janet Leigh to confess that she can't bear to take a shower. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you. (Tippi Hedren)
If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine. View quote
Joan Bennett
We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh. View quote
Natalie Wood
Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had. View quote
Hattie McDaniel
I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs. View quote
Imelda Staunton
You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today. View quote
Kelly Lynch
I saw Farrah Fawcett originally when she and her boyfriend, Lee Majors, came over to my house for a birthday party that I was having for my ex-wife, Leigh Taylor-Young. View quote
Ryan O'Neal
Indonesia is a country for which I have a great deal of respect and personal affection based on my own time in Indonesia. I want nothing, but the best for Indonesia, and I certainly want, Leigh, I certainly want the boats stopped and that is overwhelmingly in the interests of both our countries. View quote
Tony Abbott
It's funny about career choices. I had to fight to test for the Janet Leigh role in Walking My Baby Back Home. Janet couldn't dance at the time and I could-but she was a bigger name. I also fought to get the role Piper Laurie had in Son of Ali Baba. Luckily, I lost that one. The one I didn't want to do was Revenge of the Creature. Science-Fiction was considered bottom of the barrel in those days. Of course, that's the picture I am most remembered for. It's very ironic! View quote
Lori Nelson
It's funny about career choices. I had to fight to test for the Janet Leigh role in Walking My Baby Back Home. Janet couldn't dance at the time and I could-but she was a bigger name. I also fought to get the role Piper Laurie had in Son of Ali Baba. Luckily, I lost that one. The one I didn't want to do was Revenge of the Creature. View quote
Lori Nelson
Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground. (Eddie Marsan)
Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list. View quote
Jane Horrocks
Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits and biscuits and gravy and eggs with Ritz crackers and country ham, bacon, you name it. - Leigh. View quote
Leigh-Allyn Baker
Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable. View quote
Rebecca De Mornay
Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing. View quote
Sally Hawkins
I wanted to be like Vivien Leigh in 'Gone With the Wind.' I wanted to have black hair, green eyes and break hearts. View quote
Terry Farrell
Marilyn Monroe and Vivienne Leigh are real icons of mine. In terms of visual culture, they are both so iconic. There weren't any paparazzi shots of them falling out of taxis, so they will always look so incredible. View quote
Lily Cole