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Life is too short to work so hard.

Vivien Leigh

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Vivien Leigh
Age: 53 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 5
Died: 1967
Died: July 8
Actor
Film Actor
Film Actress
Stage Actor
Darjeeling (India)
Vivien Leigh
Lady Olivier
Vivian Mary Hartley
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Lady Olivier
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When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.
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I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
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Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.
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Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
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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.
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I never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.
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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
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I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
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I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.
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I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
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One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.
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Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
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Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.
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I will not be ignored.
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Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
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On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take note of the scene: Take a good look, my dear. It's a historic moment. You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the Old South disappear one night.
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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.
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