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I'm not young. What's wrong with that?

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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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 shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
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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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One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.
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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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I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
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I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If I've made up my mind to do something, I can't be persuaded out of it.
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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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I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
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Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.
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I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
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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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I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
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Things are simple when you're going to die.
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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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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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I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
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When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.
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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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