Vivien Leigh Quotes

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Vivien Leigh

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 5, 1913

Life is too short to work so hard.

Vivien Leigh

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

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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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I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.

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I've always been mad about cats.

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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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I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

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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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I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.

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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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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.

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

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

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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

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Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

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