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I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
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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More quotes by Vivien Leigh
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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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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People who are very beautiful make their own laws.
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You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
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It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.
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I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
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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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Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.
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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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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 have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
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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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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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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 cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
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Scarlett tells Mammy: I'm too young to be a widow. She weeps to her mother: My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore. Her mother comforts her: It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young.
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I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
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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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You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.
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