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I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
Vivien Leigh
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Vivien Leigh
Age: 53 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 5
Died: 1967
Died: July 8
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Darjeeling (India)
Vivien Leigh
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Vivian Mary Hartley
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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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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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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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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 have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
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I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
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Things are simple when you're going to die.
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I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
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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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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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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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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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You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
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Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
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Life is too short to work so hard.
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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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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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My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.
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