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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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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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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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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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I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.
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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
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I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
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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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Life is too short to work so hard.
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I will not be ignored.
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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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I never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.
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I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.
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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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Things are simple when you're going to die.
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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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