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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

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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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Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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People who are very beautiful make their own laws.
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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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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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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.
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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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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
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I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
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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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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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Things are simple when you're going to die.
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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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Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
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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 don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
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