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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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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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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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Scarlett tells Mammy: I'm too young to be a widow. She weeps to her mother: My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore. Her mother comforts her: It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young.
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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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I will not be ignored.
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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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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'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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I've always been mad about cats.
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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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Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.
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I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.
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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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Every single night I'm nervous.
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I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
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