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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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Lady Olivier
Vivian Mary Hartley
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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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I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
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I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If I've made up my mind to do something, I can't be persuaded out of it.
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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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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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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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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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I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
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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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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
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I am going to be a great actress.
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I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
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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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Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill 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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Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
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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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It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.
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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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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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