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I am going to be a great actress.

Vivien Leigh

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Vivien Leigh
Age: 53 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 5
Died: 1967
Died: July 8
Actor
Film Actor
Film Actress
Stage Actor
Darjeeling (India)
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Vivian Mary Hartley
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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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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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I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
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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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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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Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
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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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I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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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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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about.
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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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When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.
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I will not be ignored.
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