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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
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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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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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Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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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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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 think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
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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 have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
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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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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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I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
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Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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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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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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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 always know my lines.
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I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
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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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It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.
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