English - Actress | November 5, 1913 - July 8, 1967
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
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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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I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
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Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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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.
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When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.
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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.
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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
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I adore dancing.
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I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
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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.
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