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It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.

Vivien Leigh

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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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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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Life is too short to work so hard.
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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 don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
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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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Every single night I'm nervous.
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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'm not young. What's wrong with that?
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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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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 have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
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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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I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.
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Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
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I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
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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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I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
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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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