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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

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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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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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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
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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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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 friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about.
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Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.
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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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Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.
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I never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.
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I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
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Every single night I'm nervous.
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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 loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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