Vivien Leigh

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."