Author: Vivien Leigh

Quotes

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.

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

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

I am going to be a great actress.

I am going to be a great actress.

- 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'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

Life is too short to work so hard.

Life is too short to work so hard.

- 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

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

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

- 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

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