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I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
Vivien Leigh
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Vivien Leigh
Age: 53 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 5
Died: 1967
Died: July 8
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Darjeeling (India)
Vivien Leigh
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Vivian Mary Hartley
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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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Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.
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Things are simple when you're going to die.
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I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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I am going to be a great actress.
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I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
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When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.
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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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I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.
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My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.
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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
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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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I will not be ignored.
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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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I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
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I always know my lines.
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