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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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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 loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
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Things are simple when you're going to die.
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I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
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I will not be ignored.
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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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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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Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
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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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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
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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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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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Every single night I'm nervous.
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I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.
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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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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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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 don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
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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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