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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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• 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 think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

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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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• I always know my lines.

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• English people don’t have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

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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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• My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

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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’m not afraid to die.

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• A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I’m already 45.

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• I am going to be a great actress.

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• I don’t know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

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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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Vivien Leigh (35)

Birth:	5th November, 1913
Death:	8th July, 1967
Nationality:	British, Indian
Profession:	Actress

About

Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier was a British actress, born in India, best known for her performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for both. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her as the sixteenth greatest movie star of all time.

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