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I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.

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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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It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.
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Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too: I do want to escape too! I'm so very tired of it all!. . . The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us.
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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 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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I am going to be a great actress.
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English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
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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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