Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. Thats why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else. – Vivien Leigh
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she cant see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, thats me. – Vivien Leigh
People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you cant possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap. – Vivien Leigh
English people dont have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously. – Vivien Leigh
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show. – Vivien Leigh
Life is too short to work so hard. – Vivien Leigh
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages. – Vivien Leigh
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
