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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.
Vivien Leigh
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Vivien Leigh
Age: 53 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 5
Died: 1967
Died: July 8
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I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
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I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
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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 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 think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.
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I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
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Life is too short to work so hard.
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