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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.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Fake People #Stars #Acting
“Life is too short to work so hard.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Life #Inspire #Too Short
“Scarlett tells Mammy: "I'm too young to be a widow." She weeps to her mother: "My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore." Her mother comforts her: "It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young."”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Mother #Looks #Widows
“But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics saw fit to be as foolish as to say that I was a great actress. And I thought, that was a foolish, wicked thing to say, because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry. And it took me years to learn enough to live up to what they said-for those first notices. I find it so stupid. I remember the critic very well, and have never forgiven him.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Morning #Stupid #Responsibility
“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.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Thinking #Scorpios #Swings
“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

#People #Age #France
“I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Thinking #Training #Theatre
“I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Beautiful #Rooms #Needs
“I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Grandmother #Godmother
“I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Language #Found #Accents
“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.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Giving #People #Theatre
“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.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Thinking #Laughing #People
“I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Scorpios
“Every single night I'm nervous.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Fear #Night #Acting
“My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Parent #Wanted
“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.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Family Love #Blood #America
“Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Fear #Lines #Sometimes
“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.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Girl #Mother #Voice
“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.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Beautiful #Thinking #People
“My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Wise #Men #Talking
“I never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Sleep #Hours #Never Sleep
“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

#Husband #Good Friend #Firsts
“I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Dancing #Elocution #Fencing
“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.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Thinking #People #Acting
“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.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Play #Imagination #Training
“I've always been mad about cats.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Cat #Mad #Pet
“I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Acting #Method #Should
“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.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Thinking #Play #Playwright
“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.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Sea #Swim #Want
“Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.”
-- Vivien Leigh

#Grateful #Lord #Dear

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