leigh Quotes

“Life is too short to work so hard.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.”

“I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.”

“Affection, like melancholy, magnifiestrifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscop”

“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.”

“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 work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.”