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Vivien Leigh Inspirational Quotes (58)

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You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
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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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In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained someone has been too extravagant. This does not happen in America or on the Continent, for the looks of a woman are considered a positive advertisement for her gifts and don't detract from them.
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Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
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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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Every single night I'm nervous.
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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.
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I always know my lines.
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I am going to be a great actress.
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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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Life is too short to work so hard.
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I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
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People who are very beautiful make their own laws.
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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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I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
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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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Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.
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Having lost Rhett, she can always return to the land - to Tara, to soak up its strength. . . . Tara! . . . Home. I'll go home, and I'll think of some way to get him back! After all, tomorrow is another day!
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I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
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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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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.
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I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
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Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
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