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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
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Darjeeling (India)
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Vivian Mary Hartley
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My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about.
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Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
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Every single night I'm nervous.
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Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.
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I always know my lines.
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I never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.
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I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
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I will not be ignored.
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Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.
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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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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.
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I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.
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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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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.
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I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
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I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
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Having lost Rhett, she can always return to the land - to Tara, to soak up its strength. . . . Tara! . . . Home. I'll go home, and I'll think of some way to get him back! After all, tomorrow is another day!
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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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