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I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
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)
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Vivian Mary Hartley
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Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.
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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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You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
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I always know my lines.
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Every single night I'm nervous.
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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 cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
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Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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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 was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.
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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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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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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 don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
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I will not be ignored.
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Some critics saw fit to say that I was a great actress. I thought that was a foolish, wicket thing to say because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry.
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I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
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It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.
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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 shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
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