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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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I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
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Every single night I'm nervous.
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My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.
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It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.
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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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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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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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I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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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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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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Things are simple when you're going to die.
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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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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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Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
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Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.
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I will not be ignored.
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Life is too short to work so hard.
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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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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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