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I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
Vivien Leigh
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Vivien Leigh
Age: 53 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 5
Died: 1967
Died: July 8
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Film Actor
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Darjeeling (India)
Vivien Leigh
Lady Olivier
Vivian Mary Hartley
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Lady Olivier
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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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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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It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.
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I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
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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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Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
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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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I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
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I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
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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 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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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
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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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You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
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I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
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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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Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.
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I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
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People who are very beautiful make their own laws.
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Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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