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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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Vivien Leigh
Age: 53 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 5
Died: 1967
Died: July 8
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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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I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
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