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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
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Darjeeling (India)
Vivien Leigh
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Vivian Mary Hartley
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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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Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
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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 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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I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
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You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
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Every single night I'm nervous.
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When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.
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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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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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Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill 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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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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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