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More Quotes by Vivien Leigh
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.
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?'
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.
I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
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.
Life is too short to work so hard.
Things are simple when you're going to die.
My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.
I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
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.
