“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.”
Vivien Leigh“I took a couple steps away from him and stopped in front of a framed colored poster of Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable from the movie Gone with the Wind. I studied the pair, Gable with his mysterious mustache and Leigh in her red ball gown. I’d become a fan of the classic, partially because of my mother’s suggestion that I looked a lot like a younger Vivien Leigh, with my dark wavy hair and sea green eyes. And as usual, I’d believed her for a little while.”
J.C. Patrick, A Hollywood Classic“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“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“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.”
Vivien Leigh“I hope that's a good thing,' I said, thinking he might say I reminded him of a film star- then we'd actually have something in common. I was hoping for Anne Hathaway or Julia Roberts, and not the obvious Vivien Leigh. Even Angelina Jolie would have done, though I'd never quite forgiven her for stealing Brad's heart. Talking of Brad, was Sean starting to resemble him too? No, he could never be a Brad, a Matthew McConaughey maybe at a push, but never a Brad Pitt.”
Ali McNamara, From Notting Hill with Love... Actually