Vivien Leigh Quotes
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Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
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My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.
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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 will not be ignored.
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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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I've always been mad about cats.
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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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Scarlett, from the ashes of the war-ravaged land at Tara, remembering what she was taught by her father in happier times: "As God is my witness, as God is my witness, they're not going to lick me! I'm going to live through this, and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again - no, nor any of my folks! If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill! As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."
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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 know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
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I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
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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 don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
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Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
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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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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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Having lost Rhett, she can always return to the land - to Tara, to soak up its strength. . . . Tara! . . . Home. I'll go home, and I'll think of some way to get him back! After all, tomorrow is another day!
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I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.
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Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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Every single night I'm nervous.
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Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.
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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.
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In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained; someone has been too extravagant. This does not happen in America or on the Continent, for the looks of a woman are considered a positive advertisement for her gifts and don't detract from them.
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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.