Vivien Leigh Quotes

Life is too short to work so hard.
Vivien Leigh

Life, Work, Hard

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

Grateful, Loved, Lord

I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
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Themselves, Eat, Burn

I've always been mad about cats.
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I always know my lines.
Vivien Leigh

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

Happiness, Mother, Girl

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

Laugh, Training, Difficult

I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
Vivien Leigh

She, Lucky, Died

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

Why, Training, Else

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

Single, Night, Audience

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

Life, Acting, Method

I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
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Beautiful, Truly, Hotel

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

Training, Theatre, Value

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, Woman, She

I'm not afraid to die.
Vivien Leigh

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

Times, Godmother, Loads

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

Act, Greater, Thinks

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

Beauty, Great, Care

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

Words, Place, Sea

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

Love, Give, Trying

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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Age, Good, Learning

I adore dancing.
Vivien Leigh

I am going to be a great actress.
Vivien Leigh

I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
Vivien Leigh

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: November 5, 1913

Died: July 8, 1967

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