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Zitat des Tages von Vivien Leigh:

I always know my lines.

Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.

Vivien Leigh

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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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

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I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

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I'm not young. What's wrong with that?

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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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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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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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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

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English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

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I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.

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I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.

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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 am going to be a great actress.

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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 loved fencing and dancing and elocution.

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I always know my lines.

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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

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I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.

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One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

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I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

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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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Life is too short to work so hard.

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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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I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.

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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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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.

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I'm not afraid to die.

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I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.

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I adore dancing.

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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.

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