Vivien Leigh Quotes

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• People who are very beautiful make their own laws.

  Vivien Leigh

  Beautiful, Law, People

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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.

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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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• 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

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

  Vivien Leigh

  People, Laughing, Cry

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• 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

  28 Copy quote

• 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

  40 Copy quote

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

  Vivien Leigh

  Death, Simple, Dying

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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

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• 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.

  28 Copy quote

• I've always been mad about cats.

  Vivien Leigh

  Cat, Mad, Pet

  37 Copy quote

• I will not be ignored.

  Vivien Leigh

  Ignored

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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

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

  Vivien Leigh

  Grateful, Dear Lord, Stills

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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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• 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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• I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.

  Vivien Leigh

  Dancing, Elocution, Fencing

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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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• 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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