Ashley Wilkes

"the abominable Ashley" In Search of My Father, pg. 18

"a dreadful milk-sop, totally spineless and negative" In Search of My Father, pg. 18

"I don't really think I can do much with him," he said to Selznick. Selznick's advice, "Don't do anything, Leslie. Just be yourself." In Search of My Father, pg. 18

Regarding why he got the part of Ashley Wilkes: "Well, Wink, I suppose it must have been because I could sit on a horse. The other actors they tested fell off!" In Search of My Father, pg. 19

What he thought of Gone With The Wind:

"From my own point of view, it was the most—what can I say?—violent film I've ever played in. Just one climax after another. That's what happens when you try to compress a story of that size and that virulence into a film. All the bits between the high-spots have got to go. It's full of deaths and murders and passions and jealousies and fighting—oh, and fires, lots of Technicolor fires.

"The Technicolor cameras made me break one tradition of a lifetime. I had to wear make-up for the first time on the screen. My own hair photographed reddish-brown in Technicolor and Ashley you know, was definitely 'tow-colored.' So I had my hair bleached and had to use a greyish-white make-up on my face to get a natural pale skin tone." In Search of My Father, pg. 19 

"If you sneeze, you miss me" In Search of My Father, pg. 19

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