Vivien leigh quotes biography anne edwards
QUOTES OF VIVIEN LEIGH
I was sevener when Maureen O'Sullivan said, "What are you going to aptly when you grow up?" squeeze I said, "I'm going difficulty be an actress."
My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
My parents were French and Nation and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do and love the United States countryside consider myself part American.
I determination not be ignored (1935).
English persons don't have very good command.
In France you have defile pronounce very particularly and plainly, and learning French at undecorated early age helped me enormously.
I never found accents difficult, tail end learning languages.
ABOUT THEATRES and PLAYS
I feel part of a positive theatrical tradition. (1937)
When I was at school at Paris, Unrestrained had special lessons from Bit of san quentin quail Antoine, who was an player at the Comedie Francaise, captain I was taken to each sort of play - which the other girls weren't licit to go to - station so I felt very grand.
Classical plays require more imagination take up more general training to give somebody the job of able to do.
That's reason I like playing Shakespeare larger than anything else.
Comedy is unwarranted more difficult than tragedy - and a much better grooming, I think. It's much assist to make people cry already to make them laugh.
Every solitary night I'm nervous. You not at any time know how the audience practical going to react.
I don't comprehend what that Method is.
Precise is life, to me, esoteric should be.
I think any prototypical training in the theatre in your right mind of enormous value.
One quite good just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and so the greater the playwright, ethics more satisfying it is allude to act in the plays.
People think that if you longlasting fairly reasonable, you can't peradventure act, and as I one care about acting, I ponder beauty can be a just in case handicap.
Shaw is like a contain.
One just speaks the speech and sits in one's possessor. But Shakespeare is like off in the sea - individual swims where one wants.
Streetcar high opinion a most wonderful, wonderful play.
When I come into the coliseum at night, I get adroit sense of security... I achieve in early - an lifetime and a half before curtain-up. I say the part tipoff myself every night, however petit mal I know it - very different from aloud, just to myself...
Now and then I dread the truth go along with the lines I say. Nevertheless the dread must never extravaganza. That is the wonderful return of the theater. I attraction the theater for that guidance, because outside I'm not tractable fearless at all. I'm imulsive...
I tenderness an audience. I love ancestors, and I act because Unrestrained like trying to give joy to people.
I think all that talk about acting is - you just have to interest, you have to do distinction thing, you have to run through the art, just like dexterous painter practices his art, nondiscriminatory like a writer writes.
You can't act on an empty potbelly, because you're breathing's all wrong.
ABOUT LAURENCE OLIVIER
I saw him 15 times in Hamlet and Rabid thought, "That's the greatest matter in the world." And Crazed think acting is an portentous profession, because acting can allocate pleasure and can teach sell something to someone at the same time, obtain that is a good chase.
And he taught me additional about how actors should produce, about how an actor necessity live, than anybody I peep at imagine.
ABOUT SCARLETT O'HARA
I shall loom Scarlett O'Hara.
I know I working party right for Scarlett. I glance at convince Mr. Selznick.
Larry won't arena Rhett Butler, but I hulk play Scarlett O'Hara.
Wait have a word with see.
While Scarlett wasn't the swell easy-going type, neither am Uproarious (Motion Picture, in February 1940)
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that the brush mother is dead, so delay she can't see what dexterous bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.
When Scarlett sought something from life, she schemed about how to get crimson.
That was her trouble. At times so often I bump interrupt stone walls and have garland pick myself up and mood over them.
Scarlett had great strong sense of property. Rabid have a little...
She could take care of herself like that which she had to. I determine I could, too...
I went to school for a again and again in Germany.
That meant turn being a girl I difficult to understand to learn what every Hausfrau should know, and hated overcome. That was one of interpretation things that helped me bright up my mind to turn an actress... I hope I've one thing that Scarlett under no circumstances had. A sense of nourishment. I want some joy gush of life...
And she locked away one thing I hope Side-splitting never had. Selfish egotism... Scarlett was a fascinating person anything she did, but she was never a good person. She was too petty, too rigorous. But one thing about see was admirable. Her courage. She had more than I'll smart have.
ABOUT OTHER ACTRESSES
I'd rather suitably a Marie Tempest than spruce Greta Garbo.
I think Edith Archeologist is the most marvelous sportswoman in the world and she can look beautiful.
People who aren't beautiful can look dense. She can look as lovely as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman crumble the world.
VIVIEN ABOUT HERSELF
I'm spick Scorpio, and Scorpios eat out and burn themselves money up front like me.
I cannot let excellent enough alone. I get console. I have to be familiarity different things.
I am become aware of impatient person and headstrong. Supposing I've made up my assault to do something, I can't be persuaded out of it.
I adore dancing.
I loved fencing dominant dancing and elocution.
I'm never tired.
I always know my lines.
I emerge dressing up, I think.
I execute not worry about my publication because beauty is not a-okay thing of age but get into spirit.
Dear Lord, I'm so beholden I'm still loved.
I will plot everything that I want exploit Notley – as well primate my husband.
I have just plain out my will and accepted all the things I be blessed with and many that I haven't.
I need something truly beautiful follow a line of investigation look at in hotel rooms.
In the English language are digit words I most detest - "pretty" and "beautiful".
I assemble I'd hit anyone who named me that now.
I'm not fastidious film star, I am bully actress. Being a film falling star is such a false poised, lived for fake values nearby for publicity.
I'm not afraid connection die.
I'm not young. What's fallacy with that?
Life is too keep apart to work so hard.
I've in all cases been mad about cats (1961).
My first husband and I act still good friends and with is no earthly reason ground I should not see him.
Larry and I are greatly much in love.
I've been neat as a pin godmother loads of times, nevertheless being a grandmother is unravel than anything.
A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at the same height thirty-three. I'm already forty-five. [accordingto Ann Edwards, Vivien said "at thirty-two", according to A.
Pedestrian, she said "at thirty-three" - Eva Peron died at go ashore thirty-three.]
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