Author: Vivien Leigh

Quotes

Life is too short to work so hard.

Life is too short to work so hard.

- Vivien Leigh

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.

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

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.

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

I've always been mad about cats.

I've always been mad about cats.

- Vivien Leigh

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

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

- Vivien Leigh

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.

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

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.

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

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

- Vivien Leigh

I am going to be a great actress.

I am going to be a great actress.

- Vivien Leigh

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