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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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Vivien Leigh
Age: 53 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 5
Died: 1967
Died: July 8
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Life is too short to work so hard.
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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 loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
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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 always know my lines.
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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
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I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
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Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
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I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If I've made up my mind to do something, I can't be persuaded out of it.
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My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.
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