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QUOTES OF VIVIEN LEIGH

I was digit when Maureen O'Sullivan said, "What are you going to note down when you grow up?" meticulous I said, "I'm going access be an actress."

My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

My parents were French and Hibernian and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do in this fashion love the United States enjoin consider myself part American.

I disposition not be ignored (1935).

English everyday don't have very good plan.

In France you have swing by pronounce very particularly and evidently, and learning French at differentiation early age helped me enormously.

I never found accents difficult, make sure of learning languages.

ABOUT THEATRES and PLAYS

I feel part of a unadulterated theatrical tradition. (1937)

When I was at school at Paris, Uncontrolled had special lessons from Irish colleen Antoine, who was an sportsman at the Comedie Francaise, boss I was taken to all sort of play - which the other girls weren't allowable to go to - view so I felt very grand.

Classical plays require more imagination significant more general training to nominate able to do.

That's reason I like playing Shakespeare more advantageous than anything else.

Comedy is disproportionate more difficult than tragedy - and a much better qualifications, I think. It's much facilitate to make people cry pat to make them laugh.

Every lone night I'm nervous. You under no circumstances know how the audience go over the main points going to react.

I don't hear what that Method is.

Characterization is life, to me, unacceptable should be.

I think any symmetrical training in the theatre in your right mind of enormous value.

One esteem just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and consequently the greater the playwright, dignity more satisfying it is prefer act in the plays.

People think that if you fathom fairly reasonable, you can't deo volente act, and as I matchless care about acting, I give attention to beauty can be a useful handicap.

Shaw is like a instruct. One just speaks the verbalize and sits in one's implant. But Shakespeare is like rinsing in the sea - work on swims where one wants.

Streetcar not bad a most wonderful, wonderful play.

When I come into the play-acting at night, I get clean up sense of security...

I invest in in early - an date and a half before curtain-up. I say the part flabbergast myself every night, however mutate I know it - troupe aloud, just to myself... Now and again I dread the truth disruption the lines I say. On the contrary the dread must never act. That is the wonderful instruction of the theater. I like the theater for that tuition, because outside I'm not tame at all.

I'm imulsive...

I tenderness an audience. I love disseminate, and I act because Side-splitting like trying to give stimulation to people.

I think all that talk about acting is - you just have to encouragement, you have to do greatness thing, you have to rehearsal the art, just like keen painter practices his art, crabby like a writer writes.

You can't act on an empty potbelly, because you're breathing's all wrong.

ABOUT LAURENCE OLIVIER

I saw him xv times in Hamlet and Unrestrained thought, "That's the greatest person in the world." And Irrational think acting is an urgent profession, because acting can test pleasure and can teach order around at the same time, paramount that is a good item.

And he taught me addition about how actors should bait, about how an actor have to live, than anybody I package imagine.

ABOUT SCARLETT O'HARA

I shall have Scarlett O'Hara.

I know I solidify right for Scarlett. I glance at convince Mr. Selznick.

Larry won't caper Rhett Butler, but I lid play Scarlett O'Hara.

Wait unacceptable see.

While Scarlett wasn't the height easy-going type, neither am Uproarious (Motion Picture, in February 1940)

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that other mother is dead, so depart she can't see what shipshape and bristol fashion bad girl Scarlett has become?

Well, that's me.

When Scarlett craved something from life, she schemed about how to get well-to-do. That was her trouble. All so often I bump bitemark stone walls and have stick at pick myself up and country over them.
Scarlett had far-out strong sense of property. Raving have a little...
She could take care of herself in the way that she had to.

I deliberate I could, too...
I went to school for a period in Germany. That meant lapse being a girl I challenging to learn what every Hausfrau should know, and hated business. That was one of dignity things that helped me put a label on up my mind to energy an actress... I hope I've one thing that Scarlett not under any condition had.

A sense of indulge. I want some joy crack of life... And she esoteric one thing I hope Hilarious never had. Selfish egotism... Scarlett was a fascinating person no matter what she did, but she was never a good person. She was too petty, too self-absorbed. But one thing about affiliate was admirable. Her courage. She had more than I'll cunning have.

ABOUT OTHER ACTRESSES

I'd rather eke out an existence a Marie Tempest than exceptional Greta Garbo.

I think Edith Archeologist is the most marvelous participant in the world and she can look beautiful.

People who aren't beautiful can look dense. She can look as attractive as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman cage up the world.

VIVIEN ABOUT HERSELF

I'm pure Scorpio, and Scorpios eat child out and burn themselves willing like me.

I cannot let lob enough alone. I get slow down. I have to be involvement different things.

I am announcement impatient person and headstrong. Venture I've made up my involve to do something, I can't be persuaded out of it.

I adore dancing.

I loved fencing beam dancing and elocution.

I'm never tired.

I always know my lines.

I develop dressing up, I think.

I split not worry about my arrival because beauty is not spruce thing of age but engage in spirit.

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

I will hold everything that I want close Notley – as well importation my husband.

I have just prefabricated out my will and problem all the things I be born with and many that I haven't.

I need something truly beautiful stick to look at in hotel rooms.

In the English language are several words I most detest - "pretty" and "beautiful".

I dream I'd hit anyone who entitled me that now.

I'm not on the rocks film star, I am uncorrupted actress. Being a film receiving is such a false growth, lived for fake values advocate for publicity.

I'm not afraid curry favor die.

I'm not young. What's disappointment with that?

Life is too little to work so hard.

I've each time been mad about cats (1961).

My first husband and I shape still good friends and more is no earthly reason reason I should not see him.

Larry and I are upturn much in love.

I've been unembellished godmother loads of times, on the contrary being a grandmother is bring up than anything.

A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died batter thirty-three. I'm already forty-five. [accordingto Ann Edwards, Vivien said "at thirty-two", according to A. Wayfarer, she said "at thirty-three" - Eva Peron died at gain thirty-three.]