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Vivien Leigh
Age: 53 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 5
Died: 1967
Died: July 8
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Film Actor
Film Actress
Stage Actor
Darjeeling (India)
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Vivian Mary Hartley
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I always know my lines.
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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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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 never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
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Scarlett tells Mammy: I'm too young to be a widow. She weeps to her mother: My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore. Her mother comforts her: It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young.
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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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Life is too short to work so hard.
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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 was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.
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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 a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
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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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Every single night I'm nervous.
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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'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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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
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I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
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I never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.
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