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More Quotes by Vivien Leigh
I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
People who are very beautiful make their own laws.
