Top 62 Quotes About Vivien Leigh
#1. If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.
Joan Bennett
#2. To have a childhood surrounded by people like Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh sounds glitzy, but for years I wanted to repress it. I couldn't take that kind of power and success.
Michael Korda
#3. I find suggestion a hell of a lot more provocative than explicit detail. You didn't see Clark[Gable] and Vivien[leigh] rolling around in bed in Gone With The Wind, but you saw that shit eating grin on her face the next morning and you knew damned well she'd gotten properly laid.
Joan Crawford
#5. I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
Imelda Staunton
#6. To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to control and defy her destiny and to know her story is to be inspired by pity and terror.
Elaine Dundy
#7. I hope my life will prove a useful & good one, to many people." - Vivien Leigh
Kendra Bean
#8. Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable.
Rebecca De Mornay
#9. I wanted to be like Vivien Leigh in 'Gone With the Wind.' I wanted to have black hair, green eyes and break hearts.
Terry Farrell
#10. Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too: "I do want to escape too! I'm so very tired of it all! ... The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us."
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#11. Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.
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#12. I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
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#13. People who are very beautiful make their own laws.
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#14. I never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.
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#16. 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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#17. 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.
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#18. Some critics saw fit to say that I was a great actress. I thought that was a foolish, wicket thing to say because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry.
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#19. I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
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#21. 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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#22. I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If I've made up my mind to do something, I can't be persuaded out of it
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#23. Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
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#24. I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
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#25. 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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#26. 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."
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
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#30. 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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#32. I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
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#33. 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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#34. Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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#35. 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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#37. Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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#38. Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
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#39. I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.
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#40. 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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#41. Things are simple when you're going to die.
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#42. 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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#43. A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
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#45. 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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#46. I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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#47. I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
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#48. I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
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#50. I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
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#51. My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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#52. It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.
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#54. Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war ... If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.
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#56. You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
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#57. On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take note of the scene: "Take a good look, my dear. It's a historic moment. You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the Old South disappear one night."
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#58. 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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#59. Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.
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#60. I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.
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#61. 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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#62. 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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