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Things are simple when you're going to die.

Vivien Leigh

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Vivien Leigh
Age: 53 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 5
Died: 1967
Died: July 8
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Stage Actor
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Vivian Mary Hartley
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I am going to be a great actress.
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You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.
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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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Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
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Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.
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English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
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I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
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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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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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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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Life is too short to work so hard.
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People who are very beautiful make their own laws.
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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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You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
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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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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
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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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