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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.

Vivien Leigh

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Vivien Leigh
Age: 53 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 5
Died: 1967
Died: July 8
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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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I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
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I always know my lines.
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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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I will not be ignored.
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In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained someone has been too extravagant. This does not happen in America or on the Continent, for the looks of a woman are considered a positive advertisement for her gifts and don't detract from them.
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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'm not young. What's wrong with that?
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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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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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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 never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.
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I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
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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've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
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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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