Vivien Leigh quotes

Vivien Leigh was a British actress, best known for her roles as Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind" and Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire." Her performances received critical acclaim and earned her two Academy Awards for Best Actress. She is remembered as one of the great icons of classic cinema. Here are 44 of her quotes:

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. (Vivien Leigh)

It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.

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I'm not young. What's wrong with that?

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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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I've always been mad about cats.

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I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

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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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Life is too short to work so hard.

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I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.

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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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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. (Vivien Leigh)

Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.

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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 need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.

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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'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.

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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

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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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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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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages. (Vivien Leigh)

I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.

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My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.

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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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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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Vivien Leigh

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Occupation: English Actress
Born: November 5, 1913
Died: July 8, 1967
Quotes count: 44
Wikipedia: Vivien Leigh

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