Vivien Leigh Quotes - Page 2

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• I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.

  Vivien Leigh

  Play, Scarlett O Hara

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

  Vivien Leigh

  Acting, Should, Method

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• I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.

  Vivien Leigh

  Dancing, Elocution, Fencing

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• 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

  Wise, Men, Talking

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• 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

  Girl, Mother, Voice

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• Who could quarrel with Clark Gable? We got on well. Whenever anyone on the set was tired or depressed, it was Gable who cheered that person up. Then the newspapers began printing the story that Gable and I were not getting on. This was so ridiculous it served only as a joke. From the time on the standard greeting between Clark and myself became, 'How are you not getting on today?'

  Vivien Leigh

  Tired, Stories, Today

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• 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

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.

  Vivien Leigh

  Different, Enough, Restless

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I always know my lines.

  Vivien Leigh

  Lines, Knows

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• Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. . . . If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.

  Vivien Leigh

  Fun, Spring, War

  "Fictional character: Scarlett". "Gone with the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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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.

  Vivien Leigh

  Thinking, People, Acting

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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

  Made, Given, Havens

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

  Vivien Leigh

  Eva Peron, Lucky, Died

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

  Vivien Leigh

  Grandmother, Godmother, Grand Mother

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• My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.

  Vivien Leigh

  Husband, Oedipus, Actors

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

  Vivien Leigh

  Scorpios, Like Me

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• Some critics saw fit to say that I was a great actress. I thought that was a foolish, wicket thing to say because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry.

  Vivien Leigh

  Responsibility, Able, Saws

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Scarlett tells Mammy: "I'm too young to be a widow." She weeps to her mother: "My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore." Her mother comforts her: "It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young."

  Vivien Leigh

  Life, Mother, Looks

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

  Vivien Leigh

  Thinking, Training, Theatre

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• I am going to be a great actress.

  Vivien Leigh

  Actresses

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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

  Husband, Good Friend, Firsts

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

  Vivien Leigh

  Night, Nervous, Audience

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• On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take note of the scene: "Take a good look, my dear. It's a historic moment. You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the Old South disappear one night."

  Vivien Leigh

  Grandchildren, Night, Atlanta

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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.

  Vivien Leigh

  Family Love, Blood, America

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• Scarlett, from the ashes of the war-ravaged land at Tara, remembering what she was taught by her father in happier times: "As God is my witness, as God is my witness, they're not going to lick me! I'm going to live through this, and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again - no, nor any of my folks! If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill! As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."

  Vivien Leigh

  Cheating, Father, War

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