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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)
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Vivian Mary Hartley
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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.
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Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
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You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
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Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too: I do want to escape too! I'm so very tired of it all!. . . The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us.
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I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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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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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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I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If I've made up my mind to do something, I can't be persuaded out of it.
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I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
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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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Some critics saw fit to say that I was a great actress. I thought that was a foolish, wicket thing to say because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry.
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I am going to be a great actress.
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I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
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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.
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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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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've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
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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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