3 December 2020 Vivien Leigh 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.
3 December 2020 Vivien Leigh 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Vivien Leigh Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
3 December 2020 Vivien Leigh 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.
3 December 2020 Vivien Leigh 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.
