I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
Meaning of the quote
This quote by English actress Vivien Leigh suggests that she enjoys seeing beautiful things when she stays in hotel rooms. She wants to be surrounded by beauty and visual pleasures, even in temporary spaces like hotel rooms. The quote implies that Vivien Leigh values aesthetics and a pleasant visual environment, even in places where she may only stay for a short time.
More quotes from 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.
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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven’t.
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I’ve been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
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I don’t know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
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You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can’t see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that’s me.
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I am going to be a great actress.
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I’m a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
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I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
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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.
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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.
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Life is too short to work so hard.
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I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
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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.
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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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Dear Lord, I’m so grateful I’m still loved.
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I always know my lines.
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I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
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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.
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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.
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I adore dancing.
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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.
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Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I’m already 45.
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Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That’s why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
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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.
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I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
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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.
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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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I’ve always been mad about cats.
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Every single night I’m nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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I’m not afraid to die.
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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.
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I’m not young. What’s wrong with that?
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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.
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