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Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.

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 Actress
Stage Actor
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Vivian Mary Hartley
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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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Life is too short to work so hard.
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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 shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
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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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Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
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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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In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained someone has been too extravagant. This does not happen in America or on the Continent, for the looks of a woman are considered a positive advertisement for her gifts and don't detract from them.
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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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I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
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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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Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. . . . If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.
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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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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 don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
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I've always been mad about cats.
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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'm not young. What's wrong with that?
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I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
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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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