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I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.

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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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Lady Olivier
Vivian Mary Hartley
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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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Having lost Rhett, she can always return to the land - to Tara, to soak up its strength. . . . Tara! . . . Home. I'll go home, and I'll think of some way to get him back! After all, tomorrow is another day!
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I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
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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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Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
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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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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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I've always been mad about cats.
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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 never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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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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Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.
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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 parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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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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People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.
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I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
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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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You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
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