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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
Actor
Film Actor
Film Actress
Stage Actor
Darjeeling (India)
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Vivian Mary Hartley
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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 never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.
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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
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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 will not be ignored.
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On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take note of the scene: Take a good look, my dear. It's a historic moment. You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the Old South disappear one night.
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My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.
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Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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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 know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
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Every single night I'm nervous.
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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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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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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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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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