Vivien Leigh Quotes

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• Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.

  Vivien Leigh

  Determination, Fighting, Thrill

  BiographyPersonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  69 Copy quote

• People who are very beautiful make their own laws.

  Vivien Leigh

  Beautiful, Law, People

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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.

  Vivien Leigh

  Thinking, Swings, Scorpios

  77 Copy quote

• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fake People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Vivien Leigh

  Fear, Lines, Sometimes

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• Life is too short to work so hard.

  Vivien Leigh

  Life, Inspire, Too Short

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• It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.

  Vivien Leigh

  People, Laughing, Cry

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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.

  Vivien Leigh

  Mind, Different, Enough

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  58 Copy quote

• 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.

  Vivien Leigh

  Yankees, Laughing, Heaven

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

  Vivien Leigh

  Young

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• I realize that the memories I cherish most are not the first night successes, but of simple, everyday things: walking through our garden in the country after rain; sitting outside a cafe in Provence, drinking the vin de pays; staying at a little hotel in an English market town with Larry, in the early days after our marriage, when he was serving in the Fleet Air Arm, and I was touring Scotland, so that we had to make long treks to spend weekends together.

  Vivien Leigh

  Country, Memories, Drinking

  29 Copy quote

• Things are simple when you're going to die.

  Vivien Leigh

  Death, Simple, Dying

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• 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

  People, Giving, Theatre

  42 Copy quote

• 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

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  29 Copy quote

• I will not be ignored.

  Vivien Leigh

  Ignored

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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.

  Vivien Leigh

  America, Brain, Doe

  34 Copy quote

• I've always been mad about cats.

  Vivien Leigh

  Cat, Mad, Pet

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

  Vivien Leigh

  Beautiful, Needs, Looks

  "Memorable hotel suites" by Ingrid Skjong, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2012.

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• But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics saw fit to be as foolish as to say that I was a great actress. And I thought, that was a foolish, wicked thing to say, because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry. And it took me years to learn enough to live up to what they said-for those first notices. I find it so stupid. I remember the critic very well, and have never forgiven him.

  Vivien Leigh

  Morning, Stupid, Responsibility

  53 Copy quote

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

  Vivien Leigh

  Grateful, Dear Lord, Stills

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• 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

  Thinking, Giving, Important

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• 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, Swim, Want

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• You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.

  Vivien Leigh

  Breathing, Empty, Stomach

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• 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

  Play, Imagination, Training

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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!

  Vivien Leigh

  Home, Thinking, Land

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