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I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
Vivien Leigh
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Vivien Leigh
Age: 53 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 5
Died: 1967
Died: July 8
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Darjeeling (India)
Vivien Leigh
Lady Olivier
Vivian Mary Hartley
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Lady Olivier
Elocution
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More quotes by Vivien Leigh
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.
Vivien Leigh
I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
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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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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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I am going to be a great actress.
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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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I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
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Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
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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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Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.
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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
Vivien Leigh
Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.
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I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
Vivien Leigh
My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about.
Vivien Leigh
I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
Vivien Leigh
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.
Vivien Leigh
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.
Vivien Leigh