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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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Vivian Mary Hartley
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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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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.
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I've always been mad about cats.
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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
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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 never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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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've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
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Life is too short to work so hard.
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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 parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.
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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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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 cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
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I am going to be a great actress.
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I will not be ignored.
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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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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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