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.
-Vivien Leigh
age
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.
-Vivien Leigh
beauty
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.
-Vivien Leigh
family
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.
-Vivien Leigh
happiness
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.
-Vivien Leigh
imagination
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.
-Vivien Leigh
learning
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
-Vivien Leigh
learning
Life is too short to work so hard.
-Vivien Leigh
life
I've always been mad about cats.
-Vivien Leigh
pet
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
-Vivien Leigh
truth
Life is too short to work so hard.
-Vivien Leigh
work
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