Vivien Leigh Quotes
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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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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."
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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.
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I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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I never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.
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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?'
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I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.
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You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
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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.
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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.
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Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too: "I do want to escape too! I'm so very tired of it all!. . . The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us."
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I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
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I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
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Every single night I'm nervous.
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People who are very beautiful make their own laws.
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I will not be 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.
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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.
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I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
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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."
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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.
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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."
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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.
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I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
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Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
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I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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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.
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I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
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