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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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Film Actor
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Darjeeling (India)
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Vivian Mary Hartley
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I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
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Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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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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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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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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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 shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
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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 birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.
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People who are very beautiful make their own laws.
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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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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 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 never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.
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