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More Quotes by Vivien Leigh
I always know my lines.
People who are very beautiful make their own laws.
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?'
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.
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.
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.
You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
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.
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.
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
