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I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.

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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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Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
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I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
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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 loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
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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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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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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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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 was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.
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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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English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
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Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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