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

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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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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 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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Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
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I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
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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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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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Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
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It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.
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I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
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Having lost Rhett, she can always return to the land - to Tara, to soak up its strength. . . . Tara! . . . Home. I'll go home, and I'll think of some way to get him back! After all, tomorrow is another day!
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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
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Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
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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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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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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
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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 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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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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