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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)
Vivien Leigh
Lady Olivier
Vivian Mary Hartley
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Lady Olivier
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In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained someone has been too extravagant. This does not happen in America or on the Continent, for the looks of a woman are considered a positive advertisement for her gifts and don't detract from them.
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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
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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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Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.
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I always know my lines.
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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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I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.
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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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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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It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.
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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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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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Life is too short to work so hard.
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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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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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Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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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've always been mad about cats.
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Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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