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.
- Vivien Leigh
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.
- Vivien Leigh
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.
- Vivien Leigh
More, Like, Plays, Shakespeare
Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
- Vivien Leigh
Night, Audience, Going, Single Night
I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
- Vivien Leigh
Young, Wrong
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
- Vivien Leigh
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.
- Vivien Leigh
Play, Wonderful, Most, Streetcar
I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
- Vivien Leigh
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.
- Vivien Leigh
Love, Give, Audience, Theatre
I adore dancing.
- Vivien Leigh
Dancing, Adore
I've always been mad about cats.
- Vivien Leigh
Pet, Always, Been, Mad
I am going to be a great actress.
- Vivien Leigh
I Am, Going, Am, Actress
I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
- Vivien Leigh
Me, Burn, Like, Themselves
Life is too short to work so hard.
- Vivien Leigh
Work, Life, Too, Life Is Too Short
I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
- Vivien Leigh
Dancing, Fencing, Loved
I'm not afraid to die.
- Vivien Leigh
Die, Afraid
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