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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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My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.
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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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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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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 know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
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I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
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I will not be ignored.
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People who are very beautiful make their own laws.
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I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
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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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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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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
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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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I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.
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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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