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My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.

- Vivien Leigh

Love, Reason, Very, Earthly

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

- Vivien Leigh

Thankful, Grateful, Still, Dear

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

Bad, Voices, Passage, Bad Girl

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.

- Vivien Leigh

Think, Actress, I Think, Marvelous

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

Playwright, Act, Plays, Satisfying

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

Beauty, Think, I Think, Possibly

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

- Vivien Leigh

Sea, Words, Like, Train

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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Think, Comedy, I Think, Laugh

I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.

- Vivien Leigh

Better, Been, Times, Godmother

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

Learning, Very, Particularly, Diction

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.

- Vivien Leigh

Love, United States, Spanish, French

When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.

- Vivien Leigh

Play, Actress, Very, Lessons

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

- Vivien Leigh

Truth, Never, Sometimes, Lines

I always know my lines.

- Vivien Leigh

Know, Always, Lines

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

Values, Star, Actress, Fake

A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

- Vivien Leigh

Lucky, She, Died, Eva

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

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Wanted, Were, Absolutely, Delighted

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.

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More, Like, Plays, Shakespeare

Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

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Night, Audience, Going, Single Night

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

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Young, Wrong

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

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Never, Found, Languages, Accents

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

- Vivien Leigh

Beautiful, Need, Rooms, Hotel

I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.

- Vivien Leigh

I Am, Scarlett, Mr, Convince

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

- Vivien Leigh

Me, Should, Method, Acting

Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

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Play, Wonderful, Most, Streetcar

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

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Theatre, Think, I Think, Classical

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.

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Love, Give, Audience, Theatre

I adore dancing.

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Dancing, Adore

I've always been mad about cats.

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Pet, Always, Been, Mad

I am going to be a great actress.

- Vivien Leigh

I Am, Going, Am, Actress

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