Vivien Leigh Quotes

My audience is going to die before I do.

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!

I'd say James Dean is someone that's really inspired me. Just the fact that he did only three movies before he died at such a young age, and yet everyone knows who he is. It really blows my mind.

It's irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. I've lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you're dead.

If you want to become a myth, you had better die young.

Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. ‘What, grandfather!’ I exclaimed. ‘Planting an almond tree?’ And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: ‘My son, I carry on as if I should never die.’ I replied: ‘And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.’ Which of us was right, boss?

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

At 99 and after a long stay in a nursing home, the death of legendary photographer Eve Arnold was hardly a surprise - though she may have been just a little annoyed to quit a few months short of 100.

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late.

Don't get old, if you can avoid it.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

How young can you die of old age?