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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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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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I never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.
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I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
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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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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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I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
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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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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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I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
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Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.
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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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People who are very beautiful make their own laws.
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Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
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It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.
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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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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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I will not be ignored.
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