Vivien Leigh Quotes

English - Actress November 5, 1913 - July 8, 1967

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.

Beautiful Woman Beautiful Woman Look

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

Thankful Grateful Loved Lord Still

I've always been mad about cats.

Cats Pet Always Mad

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

Better Grandmother Anything Than

I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.

Loved Dancing Fencing

Life is too short to work so hard.

Life Work Life Is Too Short Short

I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.

Me Burn Eat Out

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

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.

Life I Am Fake Values

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.

Beauty Great Look People

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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.

Family Love Myself Parents

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.

People Think Training Laugh

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.

Good Learning Age Me

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

Beautiful Look Hotel Need

Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

Play Wonderful Most Streetcar

I'm not afraid to die.

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.

Happiness Mother Girl Me

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

Think Training Value Theatre

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.

Sea Words Place Train

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

Lucky She Thing Eva

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.

Imagination Training Better Why

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

Night You Know Never

I adore dancing.

I always know my lines.

Know Always Lines

I am going to be a great actress.

Great I Am Actress Going

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

Life Me Acting Know

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