Vivien Leigh Quotes - Page 2

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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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• I always know my lines.

  Vivien Leigh

  Lines, Knows

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

  Vivien Leigh

  Breathing, Empty, Stomach

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• I am going to be a great actress.

  Vivien Leigh

  Actresses

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every single night I'm nervous.

  Vivien Leigh

  Fear, Night, Acting

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